1) Goutallier D, Postel JM, Bernageau J, et al. Fatty muscle degeneration in cuff ruptures. Pre- and postoperative evaluation by CT scan. Clin Orthop Relat Res 1994;(304):78-83.
2) Zingg PO, Jost B, Sukthankar A, et al. Clinical and structural outcomes of nonoperative management of massive rotator cuff tears. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2007;89(9):1928-34.
3) Gladstone JN, Bishop JY, Lo IK, et al. Fatty infiltration and atrophy of the rotator cuff do not improve after rotator cuff repair and correlate with poor functional outcome. Am J Sports Med 2007;35(5):719-28.
4) Goutallier D, Postel JM, Gleyze P, et al. Influence of cuff muscle fatty degeneration on anatomic and functional outcomes after simple suture of full-thickness tears. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2003;12(6):550-4.
5) Jost B, Pfirrmann CW, Gerber C, et al. Clinical outcome after structural failure of rotator cuff repairs. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2000;82(3):304-14.
6) Fuchs B, Weishaupt D, Zanetti M, et al. Fatty degeneration of the muscles of the rotator cuff:assessment by computed tomography versus magnetic resonance imaging. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 1999;8(6):599-605.
7) Gerber C, Schneeberger AG, Hoppeler H, et al. Correlation of atrophy and fatty infiltration on strength and integrity of rotator cuff repairs:a study in thirteen patients. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2007;16(6):691-6.
8) Kikukawa K, Ide J, Kikuchi K, et al. Hypertrophic changes of the teres minor muscle in rotator cuff tears:quantitative evaluation by magnetic resonance imaging. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2014;23(12):1800-5.
9) Fukuta S, Tsutsui T, Amari R, et al. Tendon retraction with rotator cuff tear causes a decrease in cross-sectional area of the supraspinatus muscle on magnetic resonance imaging. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2016;25(7):1069-75.
10) Jo CH, Shin JS. Changes in appearance of fatty infiltration and muscle atrophy of rotator cuff muscles on magnetic resonance imaging after rotator cuff repair:establishing new time-zero traits. Arthroscopy 2013;29(3):449-58.
11) Lippe J, Spang JT, Leger RR, et al. Inter-rater agreement of the Goutallier, Patte, and Warner classification scores using preoperative magnetic resonance imaging in patients with rotator cuff tears. Arthroscopy 2012;28(2):154-9.
12) Oh JH, Kim SH, Choi JA, et al. Reliability of the grading system for fatty degeneration of rotator cuff muscles. Clin Orthop Relat Res 2010;468(6):1558-64.
13) Slabaugh MA, Friel NA, Karas V, et al. Interobserver and intraobserver reliability of the Goutallier classification using magnetic resonance imaging:proposal of a simplified classification system to increase reliability. Am J Sports Med 2012;40(8):1728-34.
14) Dixon WT. Simple proton spectroscopic imaging. Radiology 1984;153(1):189-94.
15) Fischer MA, Pfirrmann CW, Espinosa N, et al. Dixon-based MRI for assessment of muscle-fat content in phantoms, healthy volunteers and patients with achillodynia:comparison to visual assessment of calf muscle quality. Eur Radiol 2014;24(6):1366-75.
16) Matsumura N, Oguro S, Okuda S, et al. Quantitative assessment of fatty infiltration and muscle volume of the rotator cuff muscles using 3-dimensional 2-point Dixon magnetic resonance imaging. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2017;26(10):e309-e18.
17) Smith AC, Parrish TB, Abbott R, et al. Muscle-fat MRI:1.5 Tesla and 3.0 Tesla versus histology. Muscle Nerve 2014;50(12):170-6.
18) Holzbaur KR, Murray WM, Gold GE, et al. Upper limb muscle volumes in adult subjects. J Biomech 2007;40(4):742-9.
19) Vidt ME, Santago AC 2nd, Tuohy CJ, et al. Assessments of fatty infiltration and muscle atrophy from a single magnetic resonance image slice are not predictive of 3-dimensional measurements. Arthroscopy 2016;32(1):128-39.
20) Lee S, Lucas RM, Lansdown DA, et al. Magnetic resonance rotator cuff fat fraction and its relationship with tendon tear severity and subject characteristics. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2015;24(9):1442-51.
21) Nardo L, Karampinos DC, Lansdown DA, et al. Quantitative assessment of fat infiltration in the rotator cuff muscles using water-fat MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging 2014;39(5):1178-85.
22) Nozaki T, Tasaki A, Horiuchi S, et al. Quantification of fatty degeneration within the supraspinatus muscle by using a 2-point Dixon method on 3-T MRI. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2015;205(1):116-22.
23) Vidt ME, Daly M, Miller ME, et al. Characterizing upper limb muscle volume and strength in older adults:a comparison with young adults. J Biomech 2012;45(2):334-41.
24) Park YB, Ryu HY, Hong JH, et al. Reversibility of supraspinatus muscle atrophy in tendon-bone healing after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. Am J Sports Med 2016;44(4):981-8.
25) Lansdown DA, Lee S, Sam C, et al. A prospective, quantitative evaluation of fatty infiltration before and after rotator cuff repair. Orthop J Sports Med 2017;5(7):2325967117718537.
26) Li XH, Zhu J, Zhang XM, et al. Abdominal MRI at 3.0 T:LAVA-Flex compared with conventional fat suppression T1-weighted images. J Magn Reson Imaging 2014;40(1):58-66.