Lung Function Testing in the 21st Century

Prof. Dr. Clara Mihaela Ionescu is the holder of the Flanders Research Foundation FWO post-doctoral scholarship at Ghent University. She is author of more than 150 scientific papers of which more than 100 cited in Web of Science, with an h-index of 13. Currently she is involved in 5 international projects with both industrial and biomedical applications, for identification and control. She was a member of the European Respiratory Society 2006-2008 and she was the first to coin the link between fractional order impedance models for respiratory properties to actual physiology and morphology of the lungs. She is member of several technical committees of IFAC and IEEE, including domains of biomedical engineering applications.

1. Standardized lung function testing: spirometry and body plethysmography
2. Non-standardized lung function testing: impulse oscillometry
3. Forced oscillation technique
4. Methods for extracting lung function information from time-based signals
5. Diffusion in small airways
6. Added value of other clinical tests
7. Diagnosis of asthma and COPD
8. Perspectives: what we still do not know but would like to find out