Is infrared thermography a good predictor of active brown adipose tissue?

Esmeralda García-Torres @Esmeralda-Garcia-Torres

16 December 2013 1 9K Report

Robinson et al. (2013) recently demonstrated a negative relationship between body mass index and supraclavicular region temperature in response to cool stimulus using infrared thermography.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Body+mass+index+as+a+determinant+of+brown+adipose+tissue+function+in+healthy+children

Mikhail Volovik

Please look these papers:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1134%2FS0362119710040109

http://physiology.sportedu.ru/sites/physiology.sportedu.ru/files/chelfiz5_10sonkinlo.pdf

(in rus.)

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