Crohn’s disease (CD) is an inflammatory bowel disease which effects 150k people in the UK alone. Visceral fat hypertrophy is a characteristic radiological finding in CD.To date radiologists just describe it but are not able to provide more objective data regarding visceral fat volume. In this retrospective study we used 2-point mDixon fat Images along with image processing techniques to study visceral fat properties in CD patients compared with healthy volunteers. The data demonstrated a tendency of CD patients to have a higher ratio of visceral fat and more volume of intestines fully surrounded by fat compared with healthy volunteers.
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