Fig. 4
From: Imaging modalities for diagnosis and monitoring of cancer cachexia
Adipose tissue changes in a patients with cancer cachexia: axial abdominal MRI images of a 54Â year-old male subject with esophageal cancer at baseline (A) and follow-up after 8Â months (B). A1, B1 Color-coded are VAT (green), SAT (blue) and non-adipose tissue (red). A2, B2 Corresponding PDFF maps showed a decrease in VAT from 83 to 72% and SAT from 87 to 76%. The BMI decreased from 30.2 to 24.1Â kg/m2. BMI body mass index, PDFF proton density fat fraction, VAT visceral adipose tissue, SAT subcutaneous adipose tissue