A new air displacement plethysmograph for the measurement of body composition in infants

Pediatric Research

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 486-492

  Urlando, Alessandro ^a,b   Dempster, Philip ^a   Aitkens, Susan ^a  

^a Life Measurement Incorporated   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; BODY SURFACE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

AIR; BODY COMPOSITION; DIAPHRAGM; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, WHOLE BODY;

EID: 0037372339     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/01.PDR.0000049669.74793.E3     Document Type: Article

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