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This editorial introduces a special issue exploring the challenges and opportunities of medical imaging in obesity, including organ fat quantification and bariatric surgery evaluation.
Highlights the challenges obesity poses to medical imaging and the need for adapted equipment and protocols.
The rapidly rising prevalence of obesity is having a major impact on health care systems across the world.Medical imaging is by no means immune and faces many challenges.Our equipment must be fit for purpose such that diagnostic quality images can be acquired routinely, and we need to devise evidence-based protocols that evaluate the of effects of obesity, as well the complications of treatment, particularly surgery.
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Taylor et al. (2018) conducted an editorial in Obesity. Medical imaging was evaluated. This editorial introduces a special issue exploring the challenges and opportunities of medical imaging in obesity, including organ fat quantification and bariatric surgery evaluation.
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