Human body composition: Advances in models and methods

Annual Review of Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue , 1997, Pages 527-558

  Heymsfield, Steven B ^a   Wang, ZiMian ^a   Baumgartner, Richard N ^b   Ross, Robert ^c  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioimpedance analysis; Computerized axial tomography; Dual energy X ray absorptiometry; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neutron activation analysis

Indexed keywords

FAT; GROWTH HORMONE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; IMPEDANCE; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY COMPOSITION; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELEMENTS; GLYCOGEN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEINS; WATER;

EID: 0030756044     PISSN: 01999885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nutr.17.1.527     Document Type: Review

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