Research Article
Diffusion in Replica Healthy and Emphysematous Alveolar Models Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Table 2
Experimental studies involving pulmonary deposition (NR: not reported). Data is combined and plotted in Figure
1.
| | Study | Breathing frequency | | Particle size (μm) |
| | Lippmann and Albert [21] | 14 breaths/minute | 34 | 1.3–7.9 | | Pavia et al. [22] | NR | 50 | 5 ± 0.7 | | Chan and Lippmann [23] | 14 breaths/minute | 26 | 0.2–7 | | Stahlhofen et al. [24] | NR | 3 | 0.5–5 | | Stahlhofen et al. [25] | 7.5 breaths/minute | 9 | 5 and 7 | | Emmett et al. [26] | 10 breaths/minute | 12 | 3.5–10 | | Kim and Jaques [27] | 15 breaths/minute | 22 | 0.04–0.1 |
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