The reliability of respiratory quotient measurements.
A graphical analysis is presented which allows the assessment of confidence in the measurement of the respiratory quotient in an open-circuit metabolic chamber as a function of an organism's metabolic rate, the chamber ventilation, the magnitude of the respiratory quotient and the sensitivity of the gas analyzers.
D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D008433:Mathematics; D010827:Physiology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange