Abstract

PEREZ-MIGUELSANZ, María Juliana; HERRERA-HERVAS, Luis  and  FRANCO-LOPEZ, María de los Ángeles. Fast visualization of fat infiltration in dorsal muscles of the trunk at lumbar spinal column by magnetic resonance images (MR). Nutr. Hosp. [online]. 2014, vol.30, n.5, pp.1160-1164. ISSN 1699-5198.  https://dx.doi.org/10.3305/nh.2014.30.5.7712.

In magnetic resonance, fat is considered an "unwanted artifact or signal" which is suppressed when performing a clinical study, unless otherwise specified. The increase in obesity and associated diseases has become necessary to study fat deposits both in adipose tissue and ectopic fat. In this paper, we analyze the information that is available from the CD which patients receive after undergoing magnetic resonance imaging of the abdomen along with the medical report, using a personal computer, focusing on the fat deposits in spinal muscles of healthy adult volunteers or analyzes nonspecific low back pain. The application of colored interfaces or windows on gray resonance images is very useful to display fat deposits, especially when the observer is not familiar with these images. It is a fast, easy and intuitive method of semiquantitative muscle visualization of the ectopic fat.

Keywords : Magnetic resonance imaging; Adipose tissue; Intrinsic Muscles of the Back; Lumbosacral region.

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