Techniques used in measuring human body composition

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 439-448

  Pietrobelli, Angelo ^a,b,c   Wang, ZiMian ^a   Heymsfield, Steven B ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIODENSITOMETRY; REVIEW;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032153141     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00075197-199809000-00013     Document Type: Article

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