Acoustic rhinometry measurements in stepped-tube models of the nasal cavity

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 371-386

  Çelik, Hüseyin ^a   Cankurtaran, Mehmet ^a   Cakmak, Ozcan ^b  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATIONS; RESONANCE; VISCOSITY;

ACOUSTIC RHINOMETRY (AR);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; AIR; AIRWAY CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; ENERGY RESOURCE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; OSCILLATION; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RHINOMETRY; VISCOSITY;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NASAL CAVITY; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHINOMETRY, ACOUSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1142275412     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/3/002     Document Type: Article

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