Marginal DCS events: Their relation to decompression and use in DCS models

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1539-1547

  Howle, Laurens E ^a   Weber, Paul W ^a   Vann, Richard D ^b   Campbell, Mark C ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diving; Likelihood; Optimization; Probability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 72749087056     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00185.2009     Document Type: Article

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