Modeling of the human bronchial tree and simulation of internal airflow: A review

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

Volumn 6328 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 456-465

  Di, Yijuan ^a   Fei, Minrui ^a   Sun, Xin ^a   Yang, T C ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airflow; Anatomical Experiments; Bronchial Tree; CFD; CT MRI; Modeling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ANATOMICAL EXPERIMENTS; BRONCHIAL TREE; CFD; CT/MRI; MODELING; SIMULATION; HUMAN BRONCHIAL TREE; HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; MODEL AND SIMULATION; MORPHOLOGY STRUCTURES; USER-FRIENDLY-SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSIS; EXPERIMENTS; FABRICS; INTELLIGENT COMPUTING; MORPHOLOGY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; TREES (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MODELS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 78649598139     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15621-2_50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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