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. 2020 Mar 9;10:4284. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-57030-5

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Visual description of the procedure to determine bone marrow fat fraction using fat and water images generated from the IDEAL technique and custom software. First, a raw T1-weighted magnetic resonance image (A) was filtered and then used to identify the bone marrow area (yellow region in B). The identified voxels were then applied to fat (C) and water (D) images to determine bone marrow fat area and to calculate bone marrow fat fraction. Bone marrow fat volume was quantified by accounting for the number of images, image thickness and spacing between images.