Quantification of Abdominal Fat in Obese and Healthy Adolescents Using 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Free Software for Image Analysis.

<label>BACKGROUND AND AIMS</label>Computed tomography, which uses ionizing radiation and expensive software packages for analysis of scans, can be used to quantify abdominal fat. The objective of this study is to measure abdominal fat with 3T MRI using free software for image analysis an...

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Main Authors: Juliana Cristina Eloi, Matias Epifanio, Marília Maia de Gonçalves, Augusto Pellicioli, Patricia Froelich Giora Vieira, Henrique Bregolin Dias, Neide Bruscato, Ricardo Bernardi Soder, João Carlos Batista Santana, Marialena Mouzaki, Matteo Baldisserotto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5271344?pdf=render