• J Comput Assist Tomogr · May 2009

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    Chemical shift selective fat imaging using transition into driven equilibrium balanced steady-state free precession for quantification of adipose tissue.

    • Dominik Paul, Gregor Sommer, Jochen Leupold, Michael Hentschel, Tobias Baumann, and Ute Ludwig.
    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology-Medical Physics, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. dominik.paul@uniklinik-freiburg.de
    • J Comput Assist Tomogr. 2009 May 1; 33 (3): 475-80.

    AbstractThe amount and distribution of adipose tissue are important risk factors for different diseases. We present here a novel method with intrinsic water suppression (water-suppressed transition into driven equilibrium [TIDE]) and its application to healthy volunteers for fat volume and distribution evaluations. Water-suppressed TIDE revealed high image quality without artifacts, high signal-to-noise ratio of fat, and excellent suppression of water tissues, with an acquisition time of approximately 0.6 s/slice. Water-suppressed TIDE is a powerful tool for simple quantification of adipose tissue.

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