Water T2 is seen as a potential biomarker for brown adipose tissue presence and as a marker of disease activity in patients with neuromuscular disorders. Measuring water T2 in tissues containing water and fat is challenging due to the need to separate the effects of water and fat during T2 quantification. The present work proposes an adiabatic T2 prepared 3D TSE Dixon sequence in combination with a novel DIXON water-fat decomposition method and demonstrates in vivo its feasibility to measure water T2 of brown adipose tissue in the supraclavicular fossa.
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