Temporal integrity of an airborne odor stimulus is greatly affected by physical aspects of the odor delivery system

Chemical Senses

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 359-369

  Vetter, Richard S ^a   Sage, Amy E ^a   Justus, Kristine A ^a   Cardé, Ring T ^a   Galizia, C Giovanni ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Odor delivery; Olfactometer; Photoionization detector; Temporal patterns; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

2 HEPTANONE; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ODOR; OLFACTOMETER; OLFACTOMETRY; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PULSATILE FLOW; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW;

AIR MOVEMENTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; KETONES; ODORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646870608     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjj040     Document Type: Article

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