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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 67, Issue 5 2014-2025, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Lung structure parameters estimated from modeling aerosol deposition in isolated dog lungs

F. S. Rosenthal
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester 01605.

A three-compartment model predicting the recovery of aerosol boli (i.e., the ratio of the number of particles expired to the number inspired) as a function of breath-holding time and bolus penetration was fitted to experimental data measured in nine isolated dog lungs. For each lung, the diameters of alveoli and alveolar ducts, as well as the volume fractions of alveoli, alveolar ducts, and airways, were determined as parameters providing the best fit. Parameter values were alveolar diameter = 0.116 +/- 0.007 (SE) mm, alveolar duct diameter = 0.284 +/- 0.015 mm, total alveolar volume/total lung capacity (TLC) = 0.68 +/- 0.02, total alveolar duct volume/TLC = 0.24 +/- 0.02, and total airway volume/TLC = 0.09 +/- 0.01. These values agreed with published values for linear dimensions and volumetric fractions in the canine lung. The mean alveolar diameter determined by the model in the nine lungs agreed closely with a mean value of 0.115 +/- 0.002 mm determined by morphometric analysis of photographs of the subpleural alveoli in the same lungs. The procedure of fitting the model to experimental data appears to have promise as a noninvasive probe of the lung periphery. However, aerosol-derived dimensions were more variable than morphometric ones, possibly because of interlung differences in aerosol distribution not accounted for in the model.


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