Keywords:
Abdomen, Computer applications, CT-Quantitative, CT, Computer Applications-General, Technical aspects, Metabolic disorders, Endocrine disorders, Mesentery
Authors:
M. M. BARIS, A. PEKER, A. S. Yener, N. S. GEZER, M. Secil; Izmir/TR
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2018/C-2653
Aims and objectives
Increased intraabdominal visceral fat plays an important and etiologic role in metabolic disorders,
cardiac diseases and increased all-cause mortality (1,2,3,4).
Abdominal fat measurement with quantitative computed tomography (QCT) is a useful tool for evaluation of metabolic disorders (5,1,6,7,8). Several studies revealed that visceral fat area measurement from a single slice is a reliable method and highly correlated with the total visceral fat volume (1,6,9,10,11,12,13,14).
On the other hand,
borders of fat measurement were not described in the literature by all means.
To the best of our knowledge,
there is no study investigating the role of falsely highlighted intestinal intraluminal areas in fat measurement.
Also,
the role of including additional fat compartments in paraspinal muscles to subcutaneous fat measurement was unknown.
We aimed to investigate the effect of falsely highlighted intestinal intraluminal areas and additional fat compartments in paraspinal muscles while performing abdominal fat measurement with QCT.