{"id":226,"date":"2019-07-26T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/eur-radiol-exp\/2019\/07\/26\/mri-automated-assessment-of-muscle-fat-composition\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:04:13","slug":"mri-automated-assessment-of-muscle-fat-composition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/eur-radiol-exp\/blog\/mri-automated-assessment-of-muscle-fat-composition\/","title":{"rendered":"MRI automated assessment of muscle fat composition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1212 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/eur-radiol-exp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/Article-2-July-2019.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"837\" height=\"330\" \/>Proton-density fat fraction of the paraspinal muscles has become an important surrogate biomarker in patients with intervertebral disc disease, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, and neuromuscular disorders. The authors developed an automatic segmentation algorithm of the lumbar paraspinal muscles based on water-fat sequences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Article<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/eurradiolexp.springeropen.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s41747-018-0065-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Automated assessment of paraspinal muscle fat composition based on the segmentation of chemical shift encoding-based water\/fat-separated images<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors<\/strong>: Thomas Baum, Cristian Lorenz, Christian Buerger, Friedemann Freitag, Michael Dieckmeyer, Holger Eggers, Claus Zimmer, Dimitrios C. Karampinos and Jan S. Kirschke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proton-density fat fraction of the paraspinal muscles has become an important surrogate biomarker in patients with intervertebral disc disease, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, and neuromuscular disorders. 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