Skeletal muscle attenuation determined by computed tomography is associated with skeletal muscle lipid content

BH Goodpaster, DE Kelley… - Journal of applied …, 2000 - journals.physiology.org
… skeletal muscle attenuation (MA) with computed tomography (CT) is associated with muscle
… concentrations revealed good concordance between attenuation and lipid concentration (r …

Composition of skeletal muscle evaluated with computed tomography

BH Goodpaster, FL Thaete… - Annals of the New York …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… In this manner we found that the mean muscle attenuation of skeletal muscle reflects an
increase in its fat content in obesity, and that this regional body composition parameter is …

Opportunistic measurement of skeletal muscle size and muscle attenuation on computed tomography predicts 1-year mortality in medicare patients

L Lenchik, KM Lenoir, J Tan, RD Boutin… - The Journals of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Opportunistic assessment of sarcopenia on CT examinations is becoming
increasingly common. This study aimed to determine relationships between CT-measured …

Reliability of computed tomography measurements in assessment of thigh muscle cross-sectional area and attenuation

S Strandberg, ML Wretling, T Wredmark… - BMC medical imaging, 2010 - Springer
… This study has presented ImageJ as a method to monitor and evaluate CSA and attenuation
of different muscles in the thigh using CT-imaging. The method shows an overall excellent …

Computed tomography-based muscle attenuation and electrical impedance myography as indicators of trunk muscle strength independent of muscle size in older …

DE Anderson, JF Bean, NE Holt, JC Keel… - American Journal of …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
… of computed tomography-based x-ray attenuation and paraspinal electrical impedance
myography measures of trunk muscles … strength, independent of muscle cross-sectional area. …

Computed tomography-based skeletal muscle and adipose tissue attenuation: Variations by age, sex, and muscle

P Figueiredo, EA Marques, V Gudnason, T Lang… - Experimental …, 2021 - Elsevier
… the hypotheses that skeletal muscle attenuation decreases, and AT attenuation increases with
… that age-related differences in skeletal muscle and AT attenuation vary between muscles. …

Variations of CT-based trunk muscle attenuation by age, sex, and specific muscle

DE Anderson, JM D'Agostino, AG Bruno… - … Series A: Biomedical …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
… A cross-sectional examination of trunk muscle attenuation in computed tomography scans
Computed Tomography Study. Computed tomography attenuation of 11 trunk muscles was …

Psoas muscle attenuation measurement with computed tomography indicates intramuscular fat accumulation in patients with the HIV-lipodystrophy syndrome

M Torriani, C Hadigan, ME Jensen… - Journal of applied …, 2003 - journals.physiology.org
… To determine the effect of muscle attenuation on hyperinsulinemia we also performed forward
stepwise regression analysis for insulin AUC (Table 3). Psoas attenuation, visceral fat, BMI…

Computed tomography: What and how does it measure?

M Mazonakis, J Damilakis - European journal of radiology, 2016 - Elsevier
… /organ level including adipose tissue, skeletal muscle, bones and organs. The further ability
muscle or liver fat infiltration. The efficient determination of the skeletal muscle attenuation

Computed tomographic measurements of thigh muscle cross‐sectional area and attenuation coefficient predict hip fracture: the health, aging, and body composition …

T Lang, JA Cauley, F Tylavsky, D Bauer… - Journal of Bone and …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… within the midthigh muscle bundle (thigh muscle HU, an … , a measure of muscle mass) by
computed tomography (CT), … variations in thigh muscle attenuation, CSA, muscle strength, and …