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Robust imaging techniques and postprocessing strategies are needed to accurately quantify the distribution of fat in the human body. Magnetic Resonance Imaging and spectroscopy provide a wide array of sensitive methods to assess and characterize fat in storage locations such as white and brown adipose tissue depots and ectopic sites such as organs, skeletal muscles, and bone marrow. Quantitative fat measurements provide useful information to investigators in preventive medicine who monitor the efficacy of dietary, exercise, lifestyle, and surgical interventions to combat weight gain and obesity in longitudinal studies. They are also useful to clinicians who study the implications of steatosis and the pathophysiology of fat. This chapter provide a review of state-of-the-art proton magnetic resonance methods and applications in human body fat quantification. |
