Papers Published

1. Massad, E. and Furuie, S.S. and de Assis Moura, L., Jr. and Nascimento Saldiva, P.H. and Nicolelis, M.A. and Bohm, G.M., The use of a personal computer in the pulmonary function tests of laboratory rats, Methods Inf. Med. (West Germany), vol. 24 no. 4 (1985), pp. 197 - 9 .
   (last updated on 2007/04/15)

   Abstract:
   A system consisting of an 8-bit word microcomputer of the APPLE line equipped with an analog-to-digital converter, connected to a physiograph measuring pressures from a whole body plethysmograph, was used to perform pulmonary tests in rats. The system proved to be time-saving without loss of accuracy when compared to manual calculation methods. It allows measurement repetition during the same experiment, which is impossible by manual techniques, and permits to obtain flow/volume relationships without pneumotachographs or integrator and/or differentiator modules. This approach may be applied to humans and used by any physician

   Keywords:
   analogue-digital conversion;Apple computers;biology computing;microcomputer applications;pneumodynamics;