Improved Electrical-Impedance Body-Fluids Monitor

The Johnson Space Center (JSC) body-fluids monitor advances the state of the art of measuring hydration levels in humans during spaceflight. Neither bulky nor heavy, this noninvasive instrument is built around a commercial inductance-capacitance-resistance meter, which is used to obtain electrical-impedance-vs.-frequency data for equivalent-circuit/electrical-components analyses. The instrument is expected to prove invaluable not only in space-flight settings but also in such other settings as veterans' hospitals, clinical facilities, and medical research laboratories.