UK Body Composition Core Laboratory

Director: Jody L. Clasey, Ph.D., FACSM

Medical Director: Ralph Miller, MD, ScD

Manager: Adrienne L. Janowiak, M.S.

General Description:

The University of Kentucky Body Composition Core Laboratory (BCCL) located in the Seaton Center Building is a newly developed human based laboratory facility specifically designed to provide state of the art body composition analysis for research and clinical investigations. The BCCL is an estimated 1020 square feet space (including a separate 180 square feet Bone Densitometry room, a separate 180 square feet Air Displacement plethsymography and Anthropometric room, and 360 square feet sample storage and processing analyses rooms) housed in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion. The BCCL contains the necessary equipment to perform total body density, total body intra/extra-cellular water, single and multiple frequency bioelectric impedance analyses, and total body and regional bone mineral content and density measurements, thus allowing determination of in vivo body composition analysis using multi-compartment modeling techniques.

Content by Jody Clasey - Last revised: 4/16/02