Abstract #3436

Spin Densities and Relaxation Parameters of the Spectral Components of Brown Fat and Subcutaneous Fat with Localized 1H-MRS at 3T.

Ronald Ouwerkerk¹, Aaron Cypess², Kong Chen², Peter Herscovitch³, Robert Brychta², Brooks P Leitner², and Ahmed M Gharib¹

¹Biomedical and Metabolic Imaging Branch, NIDDK, Bethesda, MD, United States, ²Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Obesity Branch, NIDDK, Bethesda, MD, United States, ³PET, NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, United States

¹H-MRS was used to measure relaxation properties, lipid peak ratios and water content of white adipose tissue (WAT) and brown adipose tissue (BAT) in humans with the aim of providing information that can be used to improve MRI based methods for identifying BAT.

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