Physical modeling of airflow-walls interactions to understand the Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2673, Issue , 2003, Pages 261-269

  Payan, Yohan ^a   Pelorson, Xavier ^b   Perrier, Pascal ^b  

^a INSTITUT ALBERT BONNIOT   (France)

^b GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID MECHANICS; HISTOLOGY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SLEEP RESEARCH; SURGERY; TISSUE;

AIRFLOW INTERACTIONS; FINITE-ELEMENT BIOMECHANICAL MODELS; INSPIRATORY FLOW; MECHANICAL POINTS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SURGICAL GESTURES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 35248816891     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45015-7_25     Document Type: Article

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