Age- and gender-related variations of cervical muscle composition using chemical shift encoding-based water-fat MRI

摘要

Purpose: To understand fat distribution patterns and ectopic fat deposition in healthy adults and to provide normative data, encompassing the borders of physiological regional muscle composition. For this purpose chemical shift encoding-based water-fat Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) was used for proton density fat fraction (PDFF) calculations.