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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 15.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2012 Aug 10;63(3):1532–1541. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.08.007

Table 2.

Formulae used to calculate Body Surface Area (BSA) and Lean Body Mass (LBM)

Reference (unit) [year] BSA formulas
DuBois (m2) [1916] 0.20247 × Height (m) 0.725 ×Weight (kg) 0.425
Boyd (m2) [1935] 0.0003207 × Height (m) 0.3 ×Weight (g) (0.7285 − (0.0188 × LOG Weight (g))
Gehan (m2) [1970] .0235 × Height (cm) 0.42246 × Weight (kg) 0.51456
Haycock (m2) [1978] 0.024265 × Height (cm) 0.3964 × Weight (kg) 0.5378
Mosteller (m2) [1987] (Height (cm) × Weight (kg) / 3600)½
Tikuisis (cm2) [2001] 128.1 × Weight (kg) 0.44 × Height (cm) 0.60 (men)
147.4 × Weight (kg) 0.47 × Height (cm) 0.55(women)
Yu (cm2) [2010] 71.3989 × Height (cm) 0.7437 × Weight (kg) 0.4040
Reference (unit) [year] LBM formulas
James (kg) [1976] (1.10 × Weight (kg)) − 128 × Weight (kg)2/(100 × Height (m))2 (men)
(1.07 × Weight (kg)) − 148 × Weight (kg)2/(100 × Height (m))2 (women)
Hume (kg) [1966] (0.32810 × Weight (kg)) + (0.33929 × Height (cm)) − 29.5336 (men)
(0.29569 × Weight (kg)) + (0.41813 × Height (cm)) − 43.2933 (women)