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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on October 21, 2005
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/nci358
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
Received March 1, 2005
Revised July 14, 2005
Accepted September 26, 2005

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PAPER

A MULTI-COMPARTMENT MODEL FOR SLOW BRONCHIAL CLEARANCE OF INSOLUBLE PARTICLES--EXTENSION OF THE ICRP HUMAN RESPIRATORY TRACT MODELS

R. Sturm 1* and W. Hofmann 2

1 Brunnleitenweg 41, A-5061 Elsbethen, Austria
2 Division of Physics and Biophysics, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
R. Sturm, E-mail: Robert.Sturm{at}sbg.ac.at


  Abstract

To incorporate the various mechanisms that are presently assumed to be responsible for the experimentally observed slow bronchial clearance into the HRTM, a multi-compartment model was developed to simulate the clearance of insoluble particles in the tracheobronchial tree of the human lung. The new model considers specific mass transfer paths that may play an important role for slow bronchial clearance. These include the accumulation of particulate mass in the periciliary sol layer, phagocytosis of stored particles by airway macrophages and uptake of deposited mass by epithelial cells. Besides the gel layer representing fast mucociliary clearance, all cellular and non-cellular units involved in the slow clearance process are described by respective compartments that are connected by specific transfer rates. The gastrointestinal tract and lymph nodes are included into the model as final accumulation compartments, to which mass is transferred via the airway route and the transepithelial path. Predicted retention curves correspond well with previously published data.


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