Diffusion tensor imaging in children with obesity / 国际儿科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Childhood obesity is a complex disease that is caused by potygene inheritance and environmental factors.It is the main cause of obesity that energy intake is more than energy consumption.Neuroendocrine regulation participates in the pathogenesis of obesity.Nerve fibers are the basic structure and functional units of the nervous system.The study of the relationship between the distribution of nerve fibers and obesity in children may be a useful exploration for the pathogenesis of obesity.Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a widely used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique.It is a mature technique for observing human white matter fibers.It is an important technique to display the the tacts of the white matter,The diagnosis of the disease and the changes of the central nervous system can be deterined by describing the relationship between the white matter fibers and observing whether the integrity of the white matter is destroyed or not,so as to reflect the structure and function of the brain.But in obese children,the research is lacking.The application of DTI in childhood obesity research is reviewed in this article.