Fashions in ideas, like clothes, come and go. From approximately 1950–1980, physiological
research was seen as the key discipline in understanding lung disease and was at the …

Background: Optoelectronic plethysmography (OEP) is a non-invasive motion capture
method to measure chest wall movements and estimate lung volumes. Objectives: To …

Current methods for continuous respiration monitoring such as respiratory inductive or
optoelectronic plethysmography are limited to clinical or research settings; most wearable …

BACKGROUND: Physical assessment of breathing is an important component of physical
therapy evaluations. However, there are no standardized reference values of breathing …

To investigate the effects of posture and gender on thoraco-abdominal motion and breathing
pattern, 34 healthy men and women were studied by Opto-Electronic Plethysmography …

We tested the hypothesis that collapsed alveoli opened by a recruitment maneuver would be
unstable or recollapse without adequate positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) after …

Background: Dynamic hyperinflation of the lungs impairs exercise performance in chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, it is unclear which patients are affected by …

Optoelectronic plethysmography (OEP) has been shown to be a reliable method for the
analysis of chest wall kinematics partitioned into pulmonary rib cage, abdominal rib cage …

Non‐technical summary Cough is the commonest symptom for which people seek medical
advice and has significant impact upon quality of life. Moreover ineffective coughing is …

Although the measurement of pulmonary ventilation by a spirometer or a
pneumotachograph may appear to be a simple procedure, it is much more complicated than …