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(Radiology. 1999;211:283-286.)
© RSNA, 1999

Technical Developments

Abdominal Fat: Standardized Technique for Measurement at CT1

Tohru Yoshizumi, RT, Tadashi Nakamura, MD, PhD, Mitsukazu Yamane, MD, PhD, Abdul Hasan M. Waliul Islam, MD, PhD, Masakazu Menju, MD, PhD, Kouichi Yamasaki, MD, PhD, Takeshi Arai, MD, PhD, Kazuaki Kotani, MD, PhD, Tohru Funahashi, MD, PhD, Shizuya Yamashita, MD, PhD and Yuji Matsuzawa, MD, PhD

1 From the Division of Radiology (T.Y., K.Y.) and the Department of Internal Medicine (M.M.), Minoh City Hospital, Osaka, Japan, and the Second Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka University Medical School, 2-2, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan (T.N., M.Y., A.H.M.W.I., T.A., K.K., T.F., S.Y., Y.M.). Received September 29, 1997; revision requested December 15; revision received August 3, 1998; accepted October 26. Supported in part by grant 07671132 from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan and a grant from the Uehara Memorial Foundation, 1996. Address reprint requests to T.N.

The authors estimated abdominal fat distribution on the basis of measurements at computed tomography (CT). The attenuation range for fat tissue was defined as the interval within the mean plus or minus 2 SDs considered to be individual variation. Fat areas found with this method were closely correlated with those obtained by means of the computed planimetric method or with a fixed attenuation range from -190 to -30 HU as the standard of reference. Although the average CT numbers obtained with different scanners were distributed widely, the calculated fat areas were almost identical. This method might be a practical and standardized method at CT.

Index terms: Abdomen, anatomy, 70.92, 80.92 • Fat, CT • Computed tomography (CT), tissue characterization




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