Body composition by air-displacement plethysmography by using predicted and measured thoracic gas volumes

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1475-1479

  Mccrory, Megan A ^a,b   Molé, Paul A ^a   Gomez, Terri D ^a   Dewey, Kathryn G ^a   Bernauer, Edmund M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body volume; Densitometry; Fractional lung volumes; Hydrostatic weighing; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY COMPOSITION; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG DIFFUSION; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031921722     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1998.84.4.1475     Document Type: Article

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