Liver fat content determined by magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy

Figure 3 Three subjects with different intrahepatic lipid contents are compared. The subject in row (a) shows intrahepatic lipid content of about 20%; the subject in row (b) shows intrahepatic lipid content of about 10%; and the subject in row (c) shows intrahepatic lipid content in the normal range (about 1%). The figure shows IP (column I) and OP (column II) images of a T1-weighted gradient echo sequence. Column III shows the results of a fat-selective spectral-spatial imaging sequence, and column IV shows the results from single-volume ¹H-MRS using a STEAM sequence.