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

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Visual description of the procedure to determine bone marrow fat fraction using standard T1-weighted magnetic resonance images and the ImageJ software. First, a raw image (A) was used to determine a segmentation threshold that best matched the subcutaneous fat area (green outer ring in B). The image was then binarized and bone marrow fat voxels identified at the same threshold as the subcutaneous fat area threshold were identified (C) and used to estimate bone marrow fat area. Bone marrow fat volume was quantified by accounting for the number of images, image thickness and spacing between images.