Gravity outweighs the contribution of structure to passive ventilation-perfusion matching in the supine adult human lung.
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DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00791.2016
Abstract: Gravity and matched airway/vascular tree geometries are both hypothesized to be key contributors to ventilation-perfusion (V̇/Q̇) matching in the lung, but their relative contributions are challenging to quantify experimentally. We used a structure-based model to… read more here.
Keywords: ventilation perfusion; geometry; perfusion matching; gravity ... See more keywords