Body-composition assessment via air-displacement plethysmography in adults and children: a review.

By D. Fields, M. Goran, M. McCrory. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2002

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The clinical importance of visceral adiposity: a critical review of methods for visceral adipose tissue analysis. (2012, background): “5% [52]; children, 25% (boys), 44% (girls) [53] Indirect assessment by monitoring changes in pressure within a closed chamber No Rapid and non-invasive May be feasible for morbidly obese patients Need to control temperature and moisture Requires patient to perform a complex breathing manoeuvre Volum”
Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health. (2004, background): “Again, there are theoretical concerns about the assumptions used to calculate body fat (25).”
Measurement and Definitions of Obesity In Childhood and Adolescence: A field guide for the uninitiated (2007, neutral): “A simple, quick automated plethysmograph [77] has been available since mid 1990s, but is still limited to research settings [74].”
Effect of Obesity on the Pharmacokinetics of Drugs in Humans (2010, background): “The principles of these two techniques are similar, except that in the former, the subject is placed in a closed air-filled chamber instead of a water-filled tank.([16]) Skinfold measurement is based on the assumption that total body fat is correlated with the amount of subcutaneous fat at certain a”