title: [Fast visualization of fat infiltration in dorsal muscles of the trunk at lumbar spinal column by magnetic resonance images (MR)].
abstract: In magnetic resonance, fat is considered an "unwanted artifact or signal" which is suppressed when performing a clinical study, unless otherwise specified. The increase in obesity and associated diseases has become necessary to study fat deposits both in adipose tissue and ectopic fat. In this paper, we analyze the information that is available from the CD which patients receive after undergoing magnetic resonance imaging of the abdomen along with the medical report, using a personal computer, focusing on the fat deposits in spinal muscles of healthy adult volunteers or analyzes nonspecific low back pain. The application of colored interfaces or windows on gray resonance images is very useful to display fat deposits, especially when the observer is not familiar with these images. It is a fast, easy and intuitive method of semiquantitative muscle visualization of the ectopic fat.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Anatomía y Embriología Humanas. Facultad de Medicina. Universidad Complutense. Madrid.. jperezm@med.ucm.es.
authors.forename: María Juliana
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Pérez-Miguelsanz
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Imagen para el Diagnóstico. Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz. Madrid.. luisraider@hotmail.es.
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Herrera-Hervás
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Diagnóstico por Imagen, Hospital Universitario San Juan. Alicante. España.. afranco@fjd.es.
authors.forename: María de Los Ángeles
authors.initials: Mde L
authors.lastname: Franco-López
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000737:chemistry; D000328:Adult; D016477:Artifacts; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D008161:Lumbosacral Region; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000737:chemistry; D060726:Torso