The human thorax
model
The one-dimensional model using selected biological tissues consisting
of skin, fat, muscle, cartilage, lungs and heart obtained from the
Visible Human Project is used in the present study. 24The structure of human thorax including the heart is divided into
several layers from the chest skin up to the posterior skin [Figure
1]. 19 The respiratory rate of the lung is 0.3 Hz.25 But, in this work it is assumed that the lung is in
the deflated state. A similar assumption was made by Cavagnaro et al. to
model the cardiac activity. 18