Fat and hydration monitoring by abdominal bioimpedance analysis: Data interpretation by hierarchical electrical modeling

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 975-982

  Scharfetter, Hermann ^a   Brunner, Patricia ^a   Mayer, Michael ^a   Brandstätter, Bernhard ^b   Hinghofer Szalkay, Helmut ^a,c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bioimpedance; Electrical tissue modeling; Fat monitoring; Finite elements; Subcutaneous fat; Visceral fat

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OILS AND FATS; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE;

ABDOMINAL ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; BIOIMPEDANCE ANALYSIS; MESENTRY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT LAYER THICKNESS (SFL);

BIOMECHANICS;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; BIOIMPEDANCE; BODY FAT; ELECTRODE; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FAT CONTENT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL ELECTRICAL MODELING; HYDRATION; IMPEDANCE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MESENTERY; MODEL; MONITORING; MUSCLE; PREDICTION; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT LAYER THICKNESS; THICKNESS; VISCERA;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; VISCERA;

EID: 20444483330     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.846733     Document Type: Article

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