LipoTool: Evaluation of Tissues Compressibility

摘要

Nowadays undernutrition, overweight and obesity are very common health problems, with high impact in society at individual, social and economic levels. Therefore, the quantification and screening of body fat composition is very important in the health area. The assessment method based on skinfold measurement has well-defined protocols but the commercial equipment, considered in the literature, lacks technical evolution. Present technologies do not integrate devices with novel characteristics and are not adequate for large scale studies. They are also limited for efforts in developing new algorithms, namely, if based in dynamic tissue response. The integrated LipoTool system intends to contribute for those goals. Some novel features of LipoTool are presented, i.e., end tips alignment and acquisition of the tissue compressibility. The paper highlights innovative capacities of LipoTool, which transform it into a powerful tool for assessing and tracking, training, study and research, with the potential to develop new models and different application domains.