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Modelling of Alveolar Recruitment Phenomena in Human Lungs

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Computers in Medical Activity

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This paper presents the study on a possible solution to the questions concerning the classical theory of pressure-volume (PV) hysteresis and determines the role of alveolar recruitment phenomena in it. The primary purpose of the present study is to see, whether this physical process, which can be solved by model analysis, might explain a number of experimental observations on lung and airway dynamics in term of pressure-volume and flow relationships.

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  1. Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering PAS, 02-109, Warsaw, Trojdena 4, Poland

    Bozenna Kuraszkiewicz

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Kuraszkiewicz, B. (2009). Modelling of Alveolar Recruitment Phenomena in Human Lungs. In: Kącki, E., Rudnicki, M., Stempczyńska, J. (eds) Computers in Medical Activity. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 65. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04462-5_23

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