| BMI | Body mass index |
| PET | Positron emission tomography |
| BAT | Brown adipose tissue |
| iBAT | Inducible brown adipose tissue |
| MRI | Magnetic resonance imaging |
| WAT | White adipose tissue |
| CT | Computed tomography |
| HU | Hounsfield unit |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| BARCIST | Brown Adipose Reporting Criteria in Imaging Studies |
| SUV | Standardized uptake values |
| FTHA | Fluoro-6-thia-heptadecanoic acid |
| BMIPP | Beta-methyl-iodophenyl-pentadecanoic acid |
| SPECT | Single-photon emission computed tomography |
| MIBG | Metaiodobenzylguanidine |
| MIBI | Methoxyisobutylisonitrile |
| DNP | Dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization |
| CEUS | Contrast-enhanced ultrasound |
| MSOT | Multispectral optoacoustic tomography |