Form and function of mammalian lung : analysis by scientific computing /

The study approaches the investigations of airway morphology of the lung with a new set of imaging and cmputer graphical methods, including confocal imaging, computer-guided image acquisition, visualization and fractal graphics. The key result is that, in contrast to the belief that the design of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kriete, Andres
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1998]
Series:Advances in anatomy, embryology, and cell biology ; v. 145.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Confocal imaging of an acinus
  • 3-D analysis of a complete, highly resolved respiratory unit
  • 3-D visualization of microscopic volumes of lung
  • Discussion of 3-D analysis at respiratory units
  • Analysis of the conductive part of lung
  • A computer lung modeler
  • Computational physics applied to a bronchial tree model
  • Model predictions
  • Discussion of structural modeling and functional simulation
  • Summary
  • References
  • Index.