ArticleJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine2018
Thermal Imaging Is a Noninvasive Alternative to PET/CT for Measurement of Brown Adipose Tissue Activity in Humans.
Article in Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 76 citations in OpenAlex.
- Infrared Thermography for Estimating Supraclavicular Skin Temperature and BAT Activity in Humans: A Systematic Review.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2019Pooled it
- Preliminary study on the effects of boysenberry juice intake on brown adipose tissue activity in healthy adults.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- The Infrared Thermography Toolbox: An Open-access Semi-automated Segmentation Tool for Extracting Skin Temperatures in the Thoracic Region including Supraclavicular Brown Adipose Tissue.Journal of medical systems · 2022Trial
- Cold-Induced Thermogenesis Shows a Diurnal Variation That Unfolds Differently in Males and Females.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2022Trial
- Effect of Liothyronine Treatment on Dermal Temperature and Activation of Brown Adipose Tissue in Female Hypothyroid Patients: A Randomized Crossover Study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Trial
- Brown Adipose Tissue: Molecular Mechanisms of Regulation, Physiological Functions, and Therapeutic Targets.MedComm · 2026Review
- Investigation of the relationship between BAT activity and thermal comfort under short-term cold temperature exposure.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The thermogenic effect of mirabegron ingestion during cool conditions.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Imaging Brown Adipose Tissue: Current State and Future Perspective.Theranostics · 2025Review
- Non-invasive mapping of brown adipose tissue activity with magnetic resonance imaging.Nature metabolism · 2024Article
- Subcutaneous and Visceral Fat: Relation with Brown Adipose Tissue Activation in Women.Sports medicine international open · 2024Article
- Thermogenic Brown Fat in Humans: Implications in Energy Homeostasis, Obesity and Metabolic Disorders.The world journal of men's health · 2023Review
- Biomarkers of aging.Science China. Life sciences · 2023Review
- Sympathetic innervation of the supraclavicular brown adipose tissue: A detailed anatomical study.PloS one · 2023Article
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- Brown fat detection by infrared thermography-An invaluable research methodology with noteworthy uncertainties confirmed by a mathematical proof.Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism · 2023Article
- Both caffeine andFrontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- A Preliminary Study on Infrared Thermograph of Metabolic Syndrome.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- Diurnal variations of brown fat thermogenesis and fat oxidation in humans.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Article
- BMP8 and activated brown adipose tissue in human newborns.Nature communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
Obesity and its metabolic consequences are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Brown adipose tissue (BAT) utilizes glucose and free fatty acids to produce heat, thereby increasing energy expenditure. Effective evaluation of human BAT stimulators is constrained by the current standard method of assessing BAT-PET/CT-as it requires exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation. Infrared thermography (IRT) is a potential noninvasive, safe alternative, although direct corroboration with PET/CT has not been established.
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