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. 2014 Jan 21;9(1):e85299. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085299

Table 4. Inward Leakage (IL) and filter penetration for 10 models of FFRs in this study.

Respirator model No. of testing Geometric mean IL (%) GSD (%) 95th percentile IL (%) Mean filter penetration (%) SD (%)
A1 150 4.8 2.1 16.1 0.006 0.004
A2 150 7.0 2.3 27.0 0.066 0.050
B1 150 7.0 2.8 38.1 0.003 0.005
B2 150 7.2 2.1 24.6 0.009 0.004
C1 150 12.2 2.1 39.8 0.002 0.000
C2 150 11.0 2.4 44.9 1.119 0.513
C3 150 14.4 1.9 41.4 0.004 0.001
C4 150 17.7 2.0 53.3 0.013 0.010
D1 150 1.4 2.7 6.8 0.005 0.001
D2 150 2.2 2.3 8.5 0.137 0.132
Total 1500 6.7 3.1 42.2 0.136 0.364

Abbreviation: IL, Inward leakage; FFR, Filtering facepiece respirator; GSD, geometric standard deviation, SD, standard deviation.