Accuracy and reliability of a low-cost, handheld 3D imaging system for child anthropometry.

The usefulness of anthropometry to define childhood malnutrition is undermined by poor measurement quality, which led to calls for new measurement approaches. We evaluated the ability of a 3D imaging system to correctly measure child stature (length or height), head circumference and arm circumferen...

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Main Authors: Joel Conkle, Parminder S Suchdev, Eugene Alexander, Rafael Flores-Ayala, Usha Ramakrishnan, Reynaldo Martorell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6200231?pdf=render