Short Title:
Aerosol Deposition
Responsible HRP Element:
Space Human Factors and Habitability
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Collaborating Org(s):
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| National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) |
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Funding Status:
Completed - Task completed and produced a deliverable
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Procurement Mechanism(s):
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Aims:
- Use human models to assess deposition patterns of aerosols in fractional gravity
- Develop rat models to assess deposition patterns that can subsequently be used to directly assess lung damage
- Develop more comprehensive computational models of aerosol deposition under fractional-gravity.
Ground Analog Resources
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Ground-Based Flight Analogs
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| Number of Subjects
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8
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Category:
Risk Characterization, Quantification
Subcategory:
Evidence or Risk Characterization
Description:
The deliverable is input to the Task Book that describe the finding of research on the dynamics of aerosols in the lungs.
Internal Customers:
Space Human Factors and Habitability
External Customers:
None