Reference Values for CT-Assessed Body Composition
Overview
Get z-scores, percentiles, absolute values, and percent of predicted of a reference cohort. Functionality requires installing the data packages 'adiposerefdata' and 'musclerefdata' from p-mq.github.io/drat. For more information on the underlying research, please visit our website which also includes a graphical interface. The models and underlying data are described in Marquardt J. Peter et al (2025), "Subcutaneous and Visceral adipose tissue Reference Values from Framingham Heart Study Thoracic and Abdominal CT", *Investigative Radiology* doi:10.1097/RLI.0000000000001104 and Tonnesen PE et al. (2023), "Muscle Reference Values from Thoracic and Abdominal CT for Sarcopenia Assessment [column] The Framingham Heart Study", *Investigative Radiology*, doi:10.1097/RLI.0000000000001012.
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Dependencies
Installing bodycompref adds 13 packages (8 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: lme4 4.3 MB, nloptr 2.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.
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Maintainer since 2.0.1 (2024)
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Package metadata
- First published
- 2024-07-21
- Total releases
- 2 / 2 yrs
- License
- GPL (>= 3) OSI
- Additional repositories
- p-mq.github.io
- Minimum R
- ≥ 4.0.0
- Download size
- 17 KB
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