Magnetic resonance imaging was used to determine total fat mass of patients with neuromuscular disorders, accounting for intramuscular fat. Nineteen boys aged 9 to 12 (eight with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, three with type II spinal muscular atrophy and eight control subjects) underwent whole-body magnetic resonance imaging examination and anthropometric measurements. Whole-body fat mass was deduced from automated analysis of images normalized by a reference signal. Intramuscular and subcutaneous fat masses were deduced from manual analysis of twelve reference slices. Affected children significantly differed from control subjects for higher total fat mass, mostly related to intramuscular fat mass. Shorter protocols validated from whole-body data were shown to be more accurate than fat mass estimation derived from anthropometric measurements.

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