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Muscle fat measurement by magnetic resonance technology: The progresses in muscle disease
Cite this article as: Zhang XX, Zhang H, Nan J, et al. Muscle fat measurement by magnetic resonance technology: The progresses in muscle disease. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2019, 10(6): 474-478. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2019.06.017.
| [Abstract] Fatty infiltration is histopathologic characteristics of many muscle diseases, and severity of muscle diseases is closely related to intramuscular fat content. MRI muscle fat measurement technology can not only determine the severity of the patient's condition, but also guide the clinical rational selection of therapeutic drugs and assess the treatment effect accurately. MRI fat measurement technique and its application in muscle diseases in recent years are reviewed in the present paper. |
| [Keywords] magnetic resonance imaging；skeletal muscle；adipose tissue |
ZHANG Xuxia The First Clinical Medical College of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China; Department of Radiology, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
ZHANG Hao* Department of Radiology, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
NAN Jiang Department of Radiology, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
LUO Yili The First Clinical Medical College of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China; Department of Radiology, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
SUN Bixia The First Clinical Medical College of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China; Department of Radiology, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
*Corresponding to: Zhang H, E-mail: zhanghao@lzu.edu.cn
Conflicts of interest None.
| Received 2018-10-16 |
| Accepted 2018-12-19 |
| DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2019.06.017 |
| Cite this article as: Zhang XX, Zhang H, Nan J, et al. Muscle fat measurement by magnetic resonance technology: The progresses in muscle disease. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2019, 10(6): 474-478. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2019.06.017. |
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