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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Human Respiratory System
    sub title: An Analysis of the Interplay between Anatomy, Structure, Breathing and Fractal Dynamics
  name:
    name part: Ionescu, Clara Mihaela.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXV, 217 p. 148 illus., 129 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The Human Respiratory System combines emerging ideas from biology and mathematics to show the reader how to produce models for the development of biomedical engineering applications associated with the lungs and airways. Mathematically mature but in its infancy as far as engineering uses are concerned, fractional calculus is the basis of the methods chosen for system analysis and modelling. This reflects two decades’ worth of conceptual development which is now suitable for bringing to bear in biomedical engineering. The text reveals the latest trends in modelling and identification of human respiratory parameters with a view to developing diagnosis and monitoring technologies. Of special interest is the notion of fractal structure which is indicative of the large-scale biological efficiency of the pulmonary system. The related idea of fractal dimension represents the adaptations in fractal structure caused by environmental factors, notably including disease. These basics are linked to model the dynamical patterns of breathing as a whole. The ideas presented in the book are validated using real data generated from healthy subjects and respiratory patients and rest on non-invasive measurement methods. The Human Respiratory System will be of interest to applied mathematicians studying the modelling of biological systems, to clinicians with interests outside the traditional borders of medicine, and to engineers working with technologies of either direct medical significance or for mitigating changes in the respiratory system caused by, for example, high-altitude or deep-sea environments.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The Human Respiratory System -- Respiratory Impedance -- Modelling the Respiratory Tract by Means of Electrical Analogy -- Mathematical Basis for Modelling -- Modelling the Respiratory Tract by Means of Mechanical Analogy -- Frequency Domain: Parametric Model Selection -- Time Domain: Fractal Dimension -- Nonlinear Effects in Measurement of Respiratory Impedance -- Conclusion -- Appendices: Mathematical Basis of Fractional Calculus; Overview of Forced Oscillation Technique Devices.
  note: by Clara Mihaela Ionescu.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Human physiology
  subject:
    topic: Respiratory organs
    topic: Diseases
  subject:
    topic: Biomathematics
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics
  subject:
    topic: Human Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Pneumology/Respiratory System
  subject:
    topic: Signal, Image and Speech Processing
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  classification: 610.28
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: Series in BioEngineering
  identifier: 9781447153887
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5388-7
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    record creation date: 130819
    record change date: 20151204163511.0
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