| I semestre |
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Aim of this course is to teach students specific information on the following:
•Which methods and instrumentations are currently used to assess body composition in the human.
•The current models of body composition
Methods and Instrumentations:
Body chemical analysis, body water estimates, tissue analysis; underwater weighing, air-displacement plethysmography,dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, skinfold thickness measurement, neutron activation analysis.
Models
One-, two-, three-, four- five-compartment model
| Reference books | |||||
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| Steven Heymsfield, Timothy Lohman, Zi-Mian Wang, Scott Going | Human Body Composition (Edizione 2) | Human Kinetics | 2005 | 9780736046558 | |
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