Brown fat (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

Brown fat

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In these PET scans, the person on the left has abundant brown fat around the neck and cervical spine. The person on the right has no detectable brown fat.

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Courtesy of MSKCC radiologists Andreas G. Wibmer and Heiko Schöder.

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