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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by John G. Webster, Halit Eren
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1921 pages
82h 13m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
68-6 Medical, Biomedical, and Health
If the partial pressure is lower than the tissue partial pressure, no oxygen is diused to the tissue, and
ti
ssue
d
amage
c
an
s
tart
to o
ccur
. E
quation
6
8
.3 s
hows
H
enry’s
l
aw:
C P=
α
s
O
*
2
(68.3)
where
C
i
s
t
he
c
oncentration
o
f
o
xygen
(
O
2
)
α
s
is the solubility coecient
PO
2
is the partial pressure of oxygen
In
di
usion,
a pa
rtial
pr
essure
be
tween
th
e
ti
ssue
an
d
bl
ood
su
pply
is tr
ying
to ma
intain
eq
uilib-
rium
. Di
usion
wi
ll
oc
cur
un
til
th
e
tw
o
pa
rtial
pr
essures
ar
e
eq
ual
. Eq
uation
68.4 sh
ows
di
usion
eq
uilibrium:
P
C C
O
s1 s2
2
1 2
= =
α α
(6
8
.4)
e rate of oxygen diusion is dependent on the dierence in partial pressure. ...
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