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. 2005 Feb 10;6(1):15. doi: 10.1186/1465-9921-6-15

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Method for the measurement of bronchial blood flow (Qaw). Subjects inhale 60% of their vital capacity from a reservoir containing acetylene 0.3% and then exhale into a mass spectrometer (Panel A). Panel B shows a tracing of acetylene, the area under the curve, corresponding to the conducting airways, is proportional to airway blood flow.