Bronchial morphometry

In the present study the bronchial morphometry of Yeh and Schum (1980) is utilized instead of the Weibel model. This is a more accurate description of the bronchial airway lengths, diameters and branching pattern. It does not assume dichotomous branching and therefore does not suffer from the problem of the artificially high surface area leading to low alpha dose in the more distal airways common to other models of the human airways. 

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