Over 60 papers report recent advances in techniques for studying the composition of bodies, and present data on normal body composition and changes in it during disease. The sections cover children and infants, skeletal tissues, lean and fat tissues, trace element toxicity, methodology, and instrume

This book is the compilation of papers presented at the International Symposium on in vivo Body Composition Studies, held at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 20 - 23, 1989. The purpose of this conference was to report on advances in techniques for the in vivo measurement of body composition and to present recent data on normal body composition and changes during disease. This conference was the most recent of several meetings on body composition studies, and follows two successful such meetings, one at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1986, and at Edinburgh in 1988. The large...