Table 1 Particulate deposition data for 3R4F reference and 1 mg commercially available cigarettes over a range of smoke dilutions tested during a 30 minute exposure
From: Real-time assessment of cigarette smoke particle deposition in vitro
mean deposited mass (μg/cm2)±SD | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dilution (1:X) | 5 | 10 | 25 | 100 | 400 | |||||
Method | QCM | Fluor | QCM | Fluor | QCM | Fluor | QCM | Fluor | QCM | Fluor |
3R4F cigarette | 25.75±2.30 | 26.94±5.57 | 10.51±0.42 | 12.69±3.49 | 3.28±0.24 | 4.54±1.60 | 0.68±0.09 | 1.60±0.27 | 0.22±0.03 | 0.57±0.20 |
1 mg cigarette | 1.42±0.26 | 1.36±0.48 | 0.92±0.19 | 0.81≠ | 0.35±0.11 | 0.45≠ | 0.13± 0.02 | 0.28≠ | - | - |