Visualization of flow resistance in physiological nasal respiration: Analysis of velocity and vorticities using numerical simulation

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1203-1209

  Ishikawa, Shigeru ^a   Nakayama, Toshio ^b   Watanabe, Masahiro ^b   Matsuzawa, Teruo ^b  

^a Kanazawa Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE AIRFLOW; NOSE AIRWAY RESISTANCE; NOSE BREATHING; PHARYNX; STIMULATION;

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; NASAL CAVITY; PHARYNX; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33751298564     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.132.11.1203     Document Type: Article

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