Targeted Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Detects Brown Adipose Tissue with Ultrasmall Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide

Figure 2

Representative color-coded MR T2 map. T2 map of BAT injected with untargeted USPIO (a). T2 map of WAT (b) and BAT (c) received targeted USPIO (T2WI indicates T2-weighted image). Arrows point to BAT in (a) and (c) and point to white adipose tissue in (b).

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