Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 483-489 , May 2008

Measurements of total body water with a foot-to-foot impedancemeter

  • Michel Y. Jaffrin

      Affiliations

    • Member of Institut Universitaire de France.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: UTC Dept. GB, UMR CNRS 6600, BP 20529, 60205 Compiegne Cedex, France. Tel.: +33 3 44 23 43 98; fax: +33 3 44 23 72 49.
    • ,
  • Marie Valerie Moreno

Received 14 November 2006 ,Revised 12 May 2007 ,Accepted 15 May 2007.

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PII: S1350-4533(07)00099-9

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.05.009

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 483-489 , May 2008

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