For this reason, since 1999, LPG has had its own scientific committee (Comité Scientifique International de Recherche, or CO.S.I.RE.) composed of renowned experts and university hospital teams from around the world: researchers, surgeons, oncologists, orthopedic surgeons, doctors, dietitians, dermatologists, gynecologists, phlebologists, physiotherapists, physical rehabilitation technicians, and more. Much objective data has been collected through increasingly sophisticated evaluation techniques: soft tissue ultrasound and NMR analysis, Laser Doppler micro-circulation analysis, micro-lymphography, opto-electronic volumetrics, histological analysis of fibroblast activity in animals and humans, adipocyte function micro-dialysis and DNA chip analysis, etc. Today,