38 results about "Visceral adipose" patented technology

The present invention provides a polypeptide predominantly expressed in visceral adipose tissue, which can be used as a marker for measuring the level of visceral adipose tissue in a patient. The present invention also provides methods of measuring visceral adipose tissue levels by obtaining a biological sample and detecting and / or measuring an increase in one or more polypeptides as disclosed herein. Screening methods for agonists and antagonists involving specific polypeptides disclosed herein are provided. Antibodies can be raised against these polypeptide markers for detection and / or treatment of metabolic syndrome involving co-morbidities.

A medical image diagnosing support apparatus comprises: a first extraction means which extracts a body region of a subject from a tomographic image of the subject acquired by a medical tomographic apparatus; a second extraction means which extracts a non-adipose region from the body region; a third extraction means which extracts a total body adipose region from the body region; a separation means which separates the total body adipose region into a visceral adipose region and a subcutaneous adipose region based on positional information of the non-adipose region; and a display control means which controls of displaying the tomographic image on an image display device with clear indication of the visceral adipose region and the subcutaneous adipose region.

The invention discloses a green tea and carnitine capsule with the function of reducing weight. The green tea and carnitine capsule is characterized by being prepared in the following steps of taking a green tea extract with green tea as the raw material, adding L-carnitine tartrate, carrying out mixing, granulating, drying and straightening, then adding silicon dioxide and magnesium stearate, mixing the materials uniformly, then filling the mixture in a capsule and carrying out polishing, packaging and irradiation sterilization, thus preparing the green tea and carnitine capsule. The green tea and carnitine capsule has the beneficial effects that the green tea and carnitine capsule takes green tea and L-carnitine tartrate as the raw materials and organically combines the theory of traditional Chinese medicine with modern medicine to achieve the functions of removing fat and reducing weight; the traditional high-temperature green tea extraction method is changed, thus retaining the natural substances of fresh leaves; green tea hydrolysate obtained by adopting enzyme extraction is easy in control of molecular weight, has greenness and has strong activity and important biological functions, thus achieving the function of inhibiting obesity, especially visceral fat.

A method and system for determining normalized metrics for visceral adipose tissue (VAT) mass and volume estimation. The normalized metrics including a VAT average cross-section determined by dividing a VAT volume by a height of the abdominal region of interest, and a VAT linear mass density determined by dividing the VAT mass by a height of an abdominal region of interest.

The invention provides an automatic intra-abdominal muscle and fat image segmentation method, which is used for simultaneously segmenting abdominal muscle tissues, visceral fat tissues and subcutaneous fat tissues. The method mainly comprises the following steps of: classifying pixels of an abdominal image to obtain a preliminary pixel value change range of fat tissues, muscle tissues and a background part; Secondly, performing further segmentation on the basis of the pixel value change range of the muscle tissue to obtain an outer contour part and an inner contour part of the muscle respectively, and finishing the segmentation of the muscle tissue based on the parts. Finally, the adipose tissue segmented in the first step is divided into two parts by the muscle tissue, and the visceral adipose tissue is located in the muscle tissue. The subcutaneous adipose tissue is located outside the muscle tissue. Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages that all sliced musculartissues and adipose tissues are segmented at a time, the correct rate is high, and full-automatic segmentation is achieved.