Determination of abdominal fat thickness using dual electrode separation in the focused impedance method (FIM)

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 707-718

  Surovy, Nusrat Jahan ^a   Billah, Md Masum ^a   Haowlader, Salahuddin ^a   Al Quaderi, Golam Dastegir ^a   Rabbani, K Siddique E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

abdominal fat thickness; electrical impedance; electrical impedance tomography; focused impedance; obesity

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPARATION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ABDOMINAL FAT THICKNESS; CALIBRATION CURVES; ELECTRICAL IMPE DANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODE SEPARATION; FAT LAYER; FOCUSED IMPEDANCE; IMPEDANCE METHOD; MECHANICAL; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84860318910     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/33/5/707     Document Type: Article

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