Body Composition
FIT offers an ultrasound body assessment using the BodyMetrix™ System. The system takes cross-sectional scans that show fat and muscle thickness to accurately measure your body composition. You receive a detailed health report that includes images of your muscle and fat layers, your Base Metabolic Rate and Total Energy Expenditure, charts of your fat distribution and more.
Why is it helpful to track your body composition?
Physiotherapy
Measure rehab progress
Measure, quantify progress toward functional recovery. Measure fat and muscle ratio changes and layer symmetry. Track changes at targeted areas.
Fitness
Optimize your performance
Accurately measure body composition to detect and visualize muscle imbalances. Measure Base Metabolic Rate and Total Energy Expenditure to determine daily caloric needs..
Nutrition, Aesthetics
Measure fat loss progress
See an accurate view of your fat distribution. See changes at targeted areas. Shift focus away from the scale by tracking actual body composition.
Technology
If you have ever heard an echo you have experienced the fundamentals of ultrasound measurement. You hear an echo when sound travels through air and reflects from a wall or mountain and comes back to your ear. If you time how long it takes for you to hear the echo you can calculate how far away the reflecting object is. The BodyMetrix™ System generates an ultrasound signal that travels through tissue and then records the reflected signal. Continuing the echo analogy, the BodyMetrix™ device plays the role of your mouth and your ear. Ultrasound waves travel in tissue and strong reflections occur at the boundary of different tissue types, for example, fat-muscle and muscle-bone.
The illustration shows how the BodyMetrix™ transmits and receives pulse echos to produce a graph. The signal shows peaks (echos) from each interface (e.g. fat-muscle, muscle-muscle, and muscle-bone).
