MRI Quantitative Evaluation of Muscle Fatty Infiltration
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold-standard technique for evaluating muscle fatty infiltration and muscle atrophy due to its high contrast resolution. It can differentiate muscular from adipose tissue accurately. MRI can also quantify the adipose content within muscle bellies with several...
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| author | Vito Chianca Bottino Vincenzo Renato Cuocolo Marcello Zappia Salvatore Guarino Francesco Di Pietto Filippo Del Grande |
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| description | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold-standard technique for evaluating muscle fatty infiltration and muscle atrophy due to its high contrast resolution. It can differentiate muscular from adipose tissue accurately. MRI can also quantify the adipose content within muscle bellies with several sequences such as T<sub>1</sub>-mapping, T<sub>2</sub>-mapping, spectroscopy, Dixon, intra-voxel incoherent motion, and diffusion tensor imaging. The main fields of interest in musculoskeletal radiology for a quantitative MRI evaluation of muscular fatty infiltration include neuro-muscular disorders such as myopathies, and dystrophies. Sarcopenia is another important field in which the evaluation of the degree of muscular fat infiltration or muscular hypotrophy is required for a correct diagnosis. This review highlights several MRI techniques and sequences focusing on quantitative methods of assessing adipose tissue and muscle atrophy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-15bd68de95c549c5a6bd40f5e3f05c872023-11-17T20:09:51ZengMDPI AGMagnetochemistry2312-74812023-04-019411110.3390/magnetochemistry9040111MRI Quantitative Evaluation of Muscle Fatty InfiltrationVito Chianca0Bottino Vincenzo1Renato Cuocolo2Marcello Zappia3Salvatore Guarino4Francesco Di Pietto5Filippo Del Grande6Radiology Department EOC IIMSI, 6900 Lugano, SwitzerlandOspedale Evangelico Betania, Via Argine 604, 80147 Naples, ItalyDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, ItalyDepartment of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, ItalyDepartment of Radiology, Azienda Ospedaliera dei Colli, Monaldi Hospital, 80131 Naples, ItalyDepartment of Radiology, Pineta Grande Hospital, 81030 Castel Volturno, ItalyRadiology Department EOC IIMSI, 6900 Lugano, SwitzerlandMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold-standard technique for evaluating muscle fatty infiltration and muscle atrophy due to its high contrast resolution. It can differentiate muscular from adipose tissue accurately. MRI can also quantify the adipose content within muscle bellies with several sequences such as T<sub>1</sub>-mapping, T<sub>2</sub>-mapping, spectroscopy, Dixon, intra-voxel incoherent motion, and diffusion tensor imaging. The main fields of interest in musculoskeletal radiology for a quantitative MRI evaluation of muscular fatty infiltration include neuro-muscular disorders such as myopathies, and dystrophies. Sarcopenia is another important field in which the evaluation of the degree of muscular fat infiltration or muscular hypotrophy is required for a correct diagnosis. This review highlights several MRI techniques and sequences focusing on quantitative methods of assessing adipose tissue and muscle atrophy.https://www.mdpi.com/2312-7481/9/4/111MRIDTIT<sub>2</sub> mappingradiomicsDWI |
| spellingShingle | Vito Chianca Bottino Vincenzo Renato Cuocolo Marcello Zappia Salvatore Guarino Francesco Di Pietto Filippo Del Grande MRI Quantitative Evaluation of Muscle Fatty Infiltration Magnetochemistry MRI DTI T<sub>2</sub> mapping radiomics DWI |
| title | MRI Quantitative Evaluation of Muscle Fatty Infiltration |
| title_full | MRI Quantitative Evaluation of Muscle Fatty Infiltration |
| title_fullStr | MRI Quantitative Evaluation of Muscle Fatty Infiltration |
| title_full_unstemmed | MRI Quantitative Evaluation of Muscle Fatty Infiltration |
| title_short | MRI Quantitative Evaluation of Muscle Fatty Infiltration |
| title_sort | mri quantitative evaluation of muscle fatty infiltration |
| topic | MRI DTI T<sub>2</sub> mapping radiomics DWI |
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