Figure 8.

Schematic presentation of the Automated Aerosol Management Platform. The AAMP is fully contained within the Class III BSC. Compressed air under negative pressure enters the aerosol unit, which is controlled by mass flow controllers and experimental parameters dictated by the researcher on a laptop (not shown). Droplets produced by aerosol generation pass through a mixing tube, are diluted with additional air, and dried. This conditioning of particles ensures that the particles are monodispersed prior to entry into the whole body chamber. Simultaneously, the vacuum pulls air through the whole body chamber ensuring that newly generated particles pass through the chamber while maintaining a dynamic system. A biosampler or cascade impactor and particle sizer are attached to the whole body chamber for collection and analysis. The overall flow of the system is shown by the directional arrows.