The birth of clinical body plethysmography: it was a good week
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The birth of clinical body plethysmography: it was a good week.
Nearly fifty years ago, Arthur B. DuBois, Julius H. Comroe Jr., and their colleagues published two papers on the use of body plethysmography to measure lung volume and airway resistance. These two articles in the JCI are almost the most-cited doublet in the Journal's entire archive. Remarkably, the methods described then are still in use today in clinical pulmonary function laboratories. Though...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Investigation
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0021-9738
DOI: 10.1172/jci200422992