Experimental methods to determine inhalability and personal sampler performance for aerosols in ultra-low windspeed environments

Journal of Environmental Monitoring

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1426-1436

  Schmees, Darrah K ^a   Wu, Yi Hsuan ^a   Vincent, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIRFLOW; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPERIMENTATION; GENERATOR; INHALATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLER; VELOCITY; WIND;

AEROSOLS; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MANIKINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; WIND;

EID: 56849133530     PISSN: 14640325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b806431h     Document Type: Conference Paper

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