Body composition in sport: Interobserver reliability of a novel ultrasound measure of subcutaneous fat tissue

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 1036-1043

  Müller, Wolfram ^a   Horn, Martin ^a   Fürhapter Rieger, Alfred ^a   Kainz, Philipp ^a   Kröpfl, Julia M ^a   Ackland, Timothy R ^b   Lohman, Timothy G ^c   Maughan, Ronald J ^d   Meyer, Nanna L ^e   Sundgot Borgen, Jorunn ^f   Stewart, Arthur D ^g   Ahammer, Helmut ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Norway)

^g ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BODY COMPOSITION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOCCER; SPORTS MEDICINE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSING VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF TEST OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; BODY COMPOSITION METHODOLOGY; ELITE PERFORMANCE; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; ULTRASOUND; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BODY COMPOSITION; FEMALE; GYMNASTICS; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; SOCCER; SPORTS MEDICINE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; YOUNG ADULT;

ASSESSING VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF TEST OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; BODY COMPOSITION METHODOLOGY; ELITE PERFORMANCE; ULTRASOUND; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84885783531     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: 14730480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2013-092233     Document Type: Article

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