Combining patient-specific airway models with acinar asymmetry in simulations of multiple breath washout (MBW)

C. Whitfield (Manchester, United Kingdom), B. Foy (Cambridge, MA, United States of America), D. Kay (Oxford, United Kingdom), O. Jensen (Manchester, United Kingdom), A. Horsley (Manchester, United Kingdom)

Source: International Congress 2019 – Imaging in respiratory disease: novel technologies in 2019
Session: Imaging in respiratory disease: novel technologies in 2019
Session type: Thematic Poster
Number: 3174
Disease area: Airway diseases

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