Thesis. 1977. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND AERONAUTICS. / Includes bibliographical references. / M.S.

Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Ocean Engineering. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING. / Vita. / Includes bibliographical references. / Ph.D.

Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Aero. / Vita. / Includes bibliographical references. / Ph.D.

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A primary goal of this thesis has been to demonstrate that stable, useful measurements of the orientation of the acoustic signal vector as a function of range and time can be obtained from ocean backscatter, and that this orientation, or acoustic phase, can be related to the local sound speed distribution. Such a measurement is quite distinct from the related problem of detecting the rate of phase change, which forms the basis of Doppler technology. Doppler measurements can be made using echoes from a single point, or a sparsely distributed set of targets. Consistent and useful measurement of absolute phase, is inherently more difficult, since it depends upon the positions of individual scatterers, which are normally random and sparse relative to the acoustic wavelength. / Graduate

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. [81]-83).

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Orientadores: Hugo Enrique Hernandez Figueroa, Adriano Mesquita Alencar / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T13:39:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ferreira_MarciaZottiJusto_D.pdf: 8163515 bytes, checksum: 9e887524b2515eb42a2a97c54eac84ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: No tratamento da Lesão Pulmonar Aguda (LPA) o uso da ventilação mecânica é indispensável, nela ocorre o aumento da elastância pulmonar levando assim ao uso de pressões mais elevadas para que ocorra a ventilação. Nas últimas três décadas tornou-se evidente que a utilização de altas pressões na ventilação mecânica pode aumentar ou iniciar uma lesão pulmonar, denominada Lesão Pulmonar Associada à Ventilação Mecânica, mais conhecida pela sigla VILI do inglês Ventilation Induced Lung Injury. O objetivo deste estudo é utilizar ondas sonoras para a reabertura de vias aéreas colapsadas, evitando-se assim o uso de altas pressões. Para isso foram desenvolvidos três modelos experimentais inéditos utilizando uma configuração (setup), projetada para insuflar animais de pequeno porte (roedores), no intuito de obter medidas de mecânica pulmonar que demonstrem por meio de curvas pressão volume os momentos do recrutamento alveolar. O primeiro avaliou a influência da parede torácica sobre o sistema respiratório por meio de medidas da mecânica ventilatória. No segundo modelo desenvolveu-se uma LPA induzida pelo herbicida Paraquat, no qual se evidenciou o colapso das vias aéreas, e o comportamento das curvas pressão-volume (P-V) obtidas foi corroborado com o descrito na literatura. E o terceiro modelo analisou o comportamento de curvas P-V após a aplicação de ondas sonoras em vias aéreas previamente colapsadas, a fim de verificar a ocorrência de recrutamento alveolar pela presença do som. Os resultados mostraram-se promissores para a continuidade de novos testes / Abstract: In the treatment of Acute Lung Injury (ALI) the use of the mechanical ventilation is mandatory; here the increase of pulmonary elastance occurs forcing the use of higher pressures to favor ventilation. In the last three decades it became evident that the use of high pressures in the mechanical ventilation may increase or start a pulmonary injury, so-called Ventilation Induced Lung Injury (VILI). The objective of this study is to use sound waves to promote the aperture of the collapsed airways, avoiding this way the use of high pressures. Three experimental models to be used with a setup designed to insufflate small animals (rodents), have been developed to obtain pulmonary mechanical measurements able to demonstrate through pressure volume (P-V) curves the alveolar recruitment moments. The first one evaluated the influence of the thoracic wall over the respiratory system by means of ventilatory mechanical measurements. In the second model an induced ALI using the herbicide Paraquat was developed, here the airway collapse was demonstrated and the behavior of the obtained pressure-volume curves were corroborated with the one described in the literature. The third model analyzed the behavior of P-V curves following the application of sound waves to previously collapsed airways, with the purpose to verify the occurrence or alveolar recruitment due to the presence of sound. The three models proved to be promising to the continuity of new tests / Doutorado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Doutora em Engenharia Elétrica