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A deformable template method for describing and averaging the anatomical variation of the human nasal cavity

BACKGROUND: Understanding airflow through human airways is of importance in drug delivery and development of assisted breathing methods. In this work, we focus on development of a new method to obtain an averaged upper airway geometry from computed tomography (CT) scans of many individuals. This geo...

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Autores principales: Nejati, Alireza, Kabaliuk, Natalia, Jermy, Mark C., Cater, John E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5045586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27716092
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12880-016-0154-8