Review Article
Preventing Airborne Disease Transmission: Review of Methods for Ventilation Design in Health Care Facilities
Table 1
Experimental expiratory droplet size data.
| Study | Measurement technique | Expiration type | [μm] | [μm] | Geometric mean [μm] | Geometric standard deviation [μm] |
| Duguid [14] | Microscopy | Coughing | 1 | 2000 | 14 | 2.6 | Duguid [14] | Microscopy | Sneezing | 1 | 2000 | 8.1 | 2.3 | Loudon and Roberts [19] | Microscopy | Coughing | 1 | >1471 | 12 | 8.4 | Papineni and Rosenthal [16] | OPC1 | Talking | <0.6 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 1.5 | Papineni and Rosenthal [16] | OPC | Nose breathing | <0.6 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 1.5 | Papineni and Rosenthal [16] | OPC | Mouth breathing | <0.6 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 1.4 | Papineni and Rosenthal [16] | OPC | Coughing | <0.6 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 1.5 | Papineni and Rosenthal [16] | ATEM2 | Mouth breathing | <0.6 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 1.6 | Chao et al. [18] | IMI3 | Talking | 2 | 2000 | 12.6 | 3.2 | Chao et al. [18] | IMI | Coughing | 2 | 2000 | 13.1 | 3.6 |
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1OPC: optical particle counter, 2ATEM: analytical transmission electron microscope, 3IMI: interferometric Mie imaging.
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