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The Respiratory Impedance

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The Human Respiratory System

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This chapter treats the basic principles of estimating the respiratory impedance from measurements performed with the forced oscillation lung function test. First, the non-parametric identification of the respiratory impedance is presented by means of spectral analysis. Next, a comparison with most representative parametric models from the literature for assessing respiratory input impedance shows that FO models are more efficient than integer-order models. It is also shown that the FO model in four parameters available from the literature is limited to the low frequency range of estimated impedance, whereas a model in two FO terms is more efficient at mid-range frequencies.

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Ionescu, C.M. (2013). The Respiratory Impedance. In: The Human Respiratory System. Series in BioEngineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5388-7_3

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