Airway geometry and inhalation effort comparisons in a narrowed and recovered airway tree associated with acute asthma

ICALIP 2008 - 2008 International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1645-1649

  Inthavong, K ^a   Ye, Y ^a   Ding, S ^a   Tu, J Y ^a   Subic, A ^a   Thien, F ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LINGUISTICS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

AIRFLOW DYNAMICS; AIRWAY TREES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

EID: 51849083960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICALIP.2008.4590290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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