Effect of laterality, gender, age and body mass index on the fat fraction of salivary glands in healthy volunteers: assessed using iterative decomposition of water and fat with echo asymmetry and least-squares estimation method.

CONCLUSIONS:: FFs of PG and SMG were age- and BMI- dependent, but not laterality- and gender-dependent. The effect of age and BMI need to be considered in further studies using Ideal-IQ technology to evaluate FFs of salivary gland diseases.
PMID: 30306806 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Dentomaxillofacial Radiology - October 13, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: Dentomaxillofac Radiol Source Type: research