Code
01B06308
Duration
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2010
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Population, ecological and evolutionary genetics
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Medical and health sciences
- Reproductive medicine
- Cell growth and development
- Histology
- Obstetrics
- Cellular interactions and extracellular matrix
- Histology
- Health information systems of medical informatics
- Biostatistics
- Health counselling
- Dietetics and molecular nutrition
- Reproductive medicine
- Cellular interactions and extracellular matrix
- Histology
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Food chemistry and molecular gastronomy
Keywords
body composition
obesity
Project description
The BodPod or air displacement phlethysmography is an instrument that measures the amount of space (volume) that a body occupies. The BodPod is recognized as a valid and precise method for measuring the percentage fat and lean of the body. It does require either estimation or measurement of lung volume.