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