From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Nov 09 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!cyclone.bc.net!awabi.library.ucla.edu!164.67.43.25!news.ucla.edu!not-for-mail From: "Kevin Klapstein" Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: leg mass Date: 10 Nov 1998 22:48:20 GMT Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Lines: 25 Message-ID: <01be0cfd$3871e4c0$1c9c8e95@gradlab_pc_2.biomath.medsch.ucla.edu> References: <3648B35A.4452EC12@pa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 149.142.156.28 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Auger wrote in article <3648B35A.4452EC12@pa.net>... > I was wondering how the mass of a human leg could be determined without > directly weighing the leg. i.e. could it be compared to the total body > mass or could mass and heights be compared between body and leg, etc. > > There is something called "the standard man" which is used in medical physics. It gives geometric shapes and numbers to approximate all the major parts of the body, organs, etc.. This will have the information you need, but you'll have to find it on your own (it's been too long since I have done this sort of work and I don't know where to find it). If you want an estimate of the mass of a particular person's leg, find the ratio of leg mass to body mass for the standard man and multiply the persons' body mass by this. You should come within a few percent on a person with a medium build. Cheers, Kevin .