The importance of a source term in modeling multibreath inert gas washout

Respiration Physiology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 99-103

  Scherer, Peter W ^a,b   Neff, Joseph D ^a,c   Baumgardner, James E ^b,c   Neufeld, Gordon R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas exchange, alveolar slope; Inert gas, expired slope; Model, expirogram, alveolar slope; Washout, lung gas

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; NITROGEN; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS EXCHANGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; NITROGEN WASHOUT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030034957     PISSN: 00345687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-5687(95)00080-1     Document Type: Article

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