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Abstract #1948

Fat-Water Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals Dynamic Alterations in Brown Adipose Tissue Lipid Content During Cold Exposure

Crystal Coolbaugh1, Bruce Damon1,2, Emily Bush1, E Brian Welch2, and Theodore Towse1,3

1Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States, 2Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States, 3Biomedical Sciences, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, United States

Fat-water MRI (FWMRI) provides a powerful means of exploring changes in the lipid content of brown adipose tissue (BAT) in response to cold exposure. Most previous FWMRI studies of changes in BAT's fat signal fraction (FSF) have done so only before and after cold exposure, however, and studies have used different FSF thresholds for defining BAT. Here, we show that in healthy young men, cold exposure elicits varied responses in BAT FSF, with areas of higher initial lipid content undergoing a net lipid depletion and areas of lower initial lipid content undergoing a net lipid accumulation.

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