Developments in the imaging of brown adipose tissue and its associations with muscle, puberty and health in children

Fusion positron emission and computed tomography (PET/CT) remains the gold-standard imaging modality to non-invasively study metabolically active brown adipose tissue (BAT). It has been widely applied to studies in adult cohorts. In contrast, the number of BAT studies in children has been few. Th...

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Main Authors: Houchun H. Hu, Vicente eGilsanz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Endocrinology
Subjects:
MRI
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fendo.2011.00033/full