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International Forum for Respiratory Research
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Research Article

The Effect of Morphological Variability on Surface Deposition Densities of Inhaled Particles in Human Bronchial and Acinar Airways

Werner Hofmann Division of Physics and Biophysics, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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Renate Winkler-Heil Division of Physics and Biophysics, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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Imre Balásházy Health and Environmental Physics Department, KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Pages 809-819 | Received 04 Nov 2005, Accepted 06 Apr 2006, Published online: 06 Oct 2008

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