A Theoretical Study on Modeling the Respiratory Tract With Ladder Networks by Means of Intrinsic Fractal Geometry

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 246-253

  Ionescu, Clara Mihaela ^a   De Keyser, Robin ^a   Muntean, Ionut ^b   Abrudean, Mihail ^b   Tenreiro Machado, J A ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fractal structure; fractional calculus; frequency domain; input impedance; ladder network; respiratory system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 77950366722     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2030496     Document Type: Article

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