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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharm Res. 2015 May 6;32(10):3170–3187. doi: 10.1007/s11095-015-1695-1

Table 2.

Deposition fractions (based on particles entering the MT) predicted with CFD compared with the in vivo data of Stahlhofen et al. (9) (in parentheses) for the sinusoidal inhalation waveform.

Particle diameter (μm) Total Lung Deposition TB Deposition
1 0.31 (0.25) 0.09 (0.03)
2 0.49 (0.49) 0.1 (0.11)
3 0.66 (0.66) 0.2 (0.23)
4 0.72 (0.78) 0.27 (0.35)
5 0.81 (0.85) 0.37 (0.43)
6 0.92 (0.90) 0.48 (0.46)
7 0.95 (0.92) 0.47 (0.45)