Development of characteristic upper tracheobronchial airway models for testing pharmaceutical aerosol delivery

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Walenga, Ross L ^a   Tian, Geng ^a   Worth Longest, P ^a,b  

^a Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol deposition; CFD simulations; In vitro experiments; In vivo in vitro correlations; IV IVCs; Pharmaceutical inhaler testing; Respiratory drug delivery; Upper airway model

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL DEPOSITION; CFD SIMULATIONS; IN-VITRO; IV-IVCS; RESPIRATORY DRUG DELIVERIES; UPPER AIRWAY;

ATOMIZERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEPOSITION; DRUG DELIVERY; EXPERIMENTS; GEOMETRY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EVAPORATION; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LARYNX; MALE; METERED DOSE INHALER; PARTICLE SIZE; SIMULATION; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; ADULT; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRONCHUS; CHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; METABOLISM; TRACHEA; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY;

ADULT; AEROSOLS; BRONCHI; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; TRACHEA;

AEROSOL;

EID: 84880870893     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: 15288951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4024630     Document Type: Article

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