Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition - MRI of Brown Adipose Tissue: Feel the Heat

MRI of Brown Adipose Tissue: Feel the Heat

Traditional Poster

Body

Wednesday, 13 May 2026

Traditional Posters | Exhibition Hall

13:40 - 14:35

Session Number: 570-05

No CME/CE Credit

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This session contains presentations highlighting the most recent findings of using MRI to study brown adipose tissue.

Skill Level: Intermediate

		570-05-198. Temporal tracking of meal-induced proton density fat fraction and T₂* decrease in supraclavicular adipose tissue Johannes Raspe, Tianxing Du, Mingming Wu, Jonathan Stelter, Martin Klingenspor, Daniela Junker, Thomas Skurk, Dimitrios Karampinos Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany Impact: Dynamically tracked proton density fat fraction of supraclavicular adipose tissue (scAT) decreased in fasting control and meal-induced activation experiments on average. The simultaneously evaluated T₂* only decreased upon activation, rendering T₂* more sensitive to track meal-induced activation of human scAT.
		570-05-199. Non-invasive Assessment of Brown Adipose Tissue Structure Using MRI mDIXON: A Mirabegron Intervention Validation Study Ou Yang, xuemin chen, Gang Huang Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China Impact: This study provides a novel approach for investigating brown adipose tissue structure.
		570-05-200. Motion-robust Z-spectral MRI with keyhole acquisition detects β₃-adrenergic–induced browning in visceral fat depots. Zoheb Ahasan, Zimeng Cai, Amar Kumar, Qiaoling Zhong, Weiguo Li, Chongwee Liew, Kejia Cai University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, United States of America Impact: This study establishes Z-spectral MRI as a noninvasive tool for quantifying metabolic remodeling in visceral fat. It enables longitudinal monitoring of adipose browning and offers a translational imaging biomarker for evaluating β₃-adrenergic therapies and metabolic interventions.
		570-05-201. BAT activation rewires systemic and tumor glucose metabolism revealed by deuterium metabolic imaging Shangpo Yang, Ganghan Yang, Qian Wan, Wenming Deng, Yijia Zheng, Cuien Zheng, Siyi Wu, Dehong Luo, Chao Zou, Zhou Liu National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China Impact: This study establishes deuterium metabolic imaging as a noninvasive tool to visualize BAT-induced tumor metabolic alterations, enabling real-time assessment of systemic–tumor glucose competition and offering new insights into metabolism-targeted cancer interventions.
		570-05-202. Feasibility of quantitative susceptibility mapping in the human supraclavicular fossa Johannes Raspe, Mingming Wu, Jonathan Stelter, Christof Boehm, Daniela Junker, Dimitrios Karampinos Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany Impact: The present study provided evidence that quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) can be performed in the challenging region of the human supraclavicular adipose tissue (scAT). QSM can be an additional parameter of interest in assessing scAT activation.
		570-05-203. Associations of MRI-Derived Subcutaneous, Visceral, and Brown Adipose Tissue Volumes with Serum Metabolic Biomarkers Ping Liu, Rutong Pan, Qun-hui Ouyang The Affiliated Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China Impact: Quantitative MRI revealed depot-specific and age- and sex-related variations in subcutaneous, visceral, and brown adipose tissues, highlighting brown adipose tissue decline with aging and its favorable metabolic profile—enabling noninvasive adipose phenotyping for metabolic risk stratification.