ISMRM workshop on fat-water separation: insights, applications and progress in MRI.
Approximately 130 attendees convened on February 19-22, 2012 for the first ISMRM-sponsored workshop on water-fat imaging. The motivation to host this meeting was driven by the increasing number of research publications on this topic over the past decade. The scientific program included an historical perspective and a discussion of the clinical relevance of water-fat MRI, a technical description of multiecho pulse sequences, a review of data acquisition and reconstruction algorithms, a summary of the confounding factors that influence quantitative fat measurements and the importance of MRI-based biomarkers, a description of applications in the heart, liver, pancreas, abdomen, spine, pelvis, and muscles, an overview of the implications of fat in diabetes and obesity, a discussion on MR spectroscopy, a review of childhood obesity, the efficacy of lifestyle interventional studies, and the role of brown adipose tissue, and an outlook on federal funding opportunities from the National Institutes of Health.
Departments of Radiology and Electrical Engineering, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90027, USA. houchunh@usc.edu
Houchun Harry
HH
Hu
Peter
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Börnert
Diego
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Hernando
Peter
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Kellman
Jingfei
J
Ma
Scott
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Reeder
Claude
C
Sirlin
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000473:pathology*; D000818:Animals; D001834:Body Water / Q000378:metabolism*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000639:trends*; D013382:Subtraction Technique / Q000639:trends*; D014867:Water / Q000032:analysis*
D014867:Water