Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 79, Issue 6 2169-2176, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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A simple and reliable method to calibrate respiratory magnetometers and Respitrace

R. B. Banzett, S. T. Mahan, D. M. Garner, A. Brughera and S. H. Loring
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

We present a simple and reliable method to calibrate respiratory magnetometers and Respitrace to infer respiratory volume changes. As in earlier methods, we assume two degrees of freedom in the chest wall and that volume displacement depends linearly on surface motion at the rib cage and abdomen. Because the area of the rib cage is larger, a given motion of its surface produces a greater lung volume change; therefore, the rib cage motion signal is given a larger gain before the two signals are added to estimate volume. In contrast to earlier methods, we use a "standard ratio" to weight relative gains of the rib cage and abdominal signals for all subjects rather than determining a gain ratio for each individual subject. Our procedure does not require subjects to perform the sometimes difficult isovolume maneuvers used in the calibration method of Konno and Mead (J. Appl. Physiol. 22: 407-422, 1967), does not require statistical computation used in the multiple-breath linear regression method, and does not produce the occasional substantial errors in gain ratio that may occur with the other methods. When magnetometers are used, the standard ratio is 4:1 (rib cage-to-abdomen); when Respitrace is used, the standard ratio is 2:1. In 11 subjects, calibration with standard ratios was as accurate as the isovolume and linear regression techniques. Accuracy during normal breathing was nearly always within 10% (median 2%), but occasional large errors occurred with both instruments.

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