The Dixon method is an Magnetic resonance imaging Sequence based on chemical shift and designed to achieve uniform fat suppression. It has been gaining popularity as it has some advantages over other fat suppression techniques, namely:
suppression of fat signal is more uniform and less affected by artifacts than many other techniques can be combined with a variety of sequence types (e.g. spin echo, gradient echo, and steady state free procession sequences) can be combined with a variety of weightings (e.g. T1, T2 and proton density) provides images with and without fat suppression from a single acquisition not only shows presence of microscopic fat but it can also quantify the amount of fat