Visualizing speech-generated oral fluid droplets with laser light scattering

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 382, Issue 21, 2020, Pages 2061-2063

  Anfinrud, Philip ^a   Stadnytskyi, Valentyn ^a   Bax, Christina E ^b   Bax, Adriaan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; COUGHING; LETTER; LIGHT SCATTERING; LOUDNESS; NONHUMAN; ORAL FLUID DROPLET; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNEEZING; SPEECH; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AEROSOL; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EXHALATION; HUMAN; LASER; MICROBIOLOGY; PANDEMIC; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA; VIROLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EXHALATION; HUMANS; LASERS; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; SALIVA; SPEECH;

EID: 85084260088     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2007800     Document Type: Letter

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