Metabolic Imaging and Characterization of Browning Adipose Tissue by DCE-MRI and Dixon Imaging
Jadegoud Yaligar1, Sanjay Kumar Verma1, Venkatesh Gopalan1, Rengaraj Anantharaj1, Giang Le Thi Thu1, and S. Sendhil Velan1
1Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, Singapore, Singapore
Browning of white adipose tissues is emerging as a promising strategy to increase whole body energy expenditure and to reduce obesity. At a whole body level, increasing the beige or BAT volume and enhancing its functional activity is a promising strategy for management of obesity. There is a lack of non-invasive methods for imaging the browning process. For the first time we demonstrated the feasibility of non-invasive imaging of browning adipose tissue by fat fraction imaging and DCE-MRI. The browning adipose tissues show significant reduction in fat fraction and increase in tissue perfusion parameters including Ktrans and ve
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