Non-invasive Imaging Methods for Brown Adipose Tissue Detection and Function Evaluation

Yaqi Zhang^1#, Xiaofei Hu^2#, Su Hu^3,4#, Alessandro Scotti^5,6, Kejia Cai^5,6, Jian Wang², Xin Zhou⁷, Ding Yang⁸, Matteo Figini⁴, Liang Pan^4,9, Junjie Shangguan⁴, Jia Yang⁴ and Zhouli Zhang^4,10*

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

²Department of Radiology, Third Military Medical University Southwest Hospital, Chongqing, China

³Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

⁴Department of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

⁵Department of Radiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

⁶Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

⁷Department of Cardiology, Pingjin Hospital, Tianjin, China

⁸Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

⁹Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

¹⁰Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

^#Contributed equally to this work

^*Corresponding Author: Dr. Zhouli Zhang, Department of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, United States, Tel: +1-(312)695-5753, Fax: (312)926-5991 Email: