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Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2010 Jul 8;38(12):3550–3571. doi: 10.1007/s10439-010-0110-7

Table 2.

Flow parameters for the two bifurcations in the CT-based airway model

	L/a	α	α²	Peak Re	Local tidal volume (ml)
Generation	A bifurcation between 2^nd-3^rd generations enclosed by a dot-dashed box in Fig. 1a
NORM	163.4	1.45	2.10	343	73.1
HFNR	5.42	7.96	63.31	343	2.42
HFOV	15.36	7.96	63.31	972	6.87
Generation	A bifurcation between 3^rd-4^th generations enclosed by a dotted box in Fig. 1a
NORM	746	0.61	0.37	277	24.8
HFNR	24.7	3.35	11.2	277	0.82
HFOV	70.1	3.35	11.2	785	2.33