Caroline Westphalen

ORCID: 0000-0002-8083-8801
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Research Areas
  • Infection Control and Ventilation
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows
  • Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
  • Chemical Safety and Risk Management
  • Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research
  • Sports Performance and Training
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery
  • Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI

RELX Group (Netherlands)
2023

LMU Klinikum
2020-2022

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2020-2022

Abstract Background In the CoVID-19 pandemic, singing came into focus as a high-risk activity for infection with airborne viruses and was therefore forbidden by many governmental administrations. Objective The aim of this study is to investigate effectiveness surgical masks regarding spatial temporal dispersion aerosol droplets during professional singing. Methods Ten singers performed passage Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Ode Joy” in two experimental setups—each without masks. First, they sang...

10.1038/s41370-021-00385-7 article EN cc-by Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology 2021-10-05

Musical activities, especially singing and playing wind instruments, have been singled out as potentially high-risk activities for the transmission of SARS CoV-2, due to a higher rate aerosol production emission. Playing instruments can produce condensation, droplets saliva, particles, which hover spread in environmental air’s convectional flows be infectious. The aim this study is investigate primary impulse dispersion aerosols that takes place during different compared breathing speaking....

10.1371/journal.pone.0262994 article EN cc-by PLoS ONE 2022-03-03

Abstract Musical activities especially singing and playing wind instruments have been singled out as potentially high-risk for transmission of SARS CoV-2, because a higher rate aerosol production emission. Playing can produce condensation water, droplets saliva, particles, which hover convectional spread in the environmental air be infectious. The aim this study is to investigate primary impulse dispersion aerosols during different comparison breathing speaking. Nine professional musicians...

10.1101/2021.01.25.20248984 preprint EN medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2021-01-26

Abstract Group singing events have been linked to several outbreaks of infection during the CoVID-19 pandemic, leading activities being banned in many areas across globe. This link between and rates supports possibility that aerosols are partly responsible for person-to-person infection. In contrast droplets, smaller aerosol particles do not fall ground within a short distance after expelled by e.g. singer. Aerosol hover spread via convection environmental air. According super-spreading...

10.1101/2020.07.21.20158832 preprint EN medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2020-07-22

Abstract Background During the Covid-19 pandemic, singing activities were restricted due to several super-spreading events that have been observed during rehearsals and vocal performances. However, it has not clarified how aerosol dispersion, which assumed be leading transmission factor, could reduced by masks are specially designed for singers. Material Methods 12 professional singers (10 of Bavarian Radio-Chorus two freelancers, 7 females 5 males) asked sing melody ode joy Beethoven’s 9 th...

10.1101/2021.07.20.21260853 preprint EN medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2021-07-22

Introduction Group musical activities using wind instruments have been restricted during the CoVID19 pandemic due to suspected higher risk of virus transmission. It was presumed that aerosols exhaled through tubes while playing would be ejected over larger distances and spread into room jet stream effects. In particular, soprano recorder is widely used as an instrument in school classes, for beginners all age groups their education, context leisure professional concert performances....

10.1371/journal.pone.0266991 article EN cc-by PLoS ONE 2022-09-26

Abstract Introduction Group musical activities using wind instruments have been restricted during the CoVID19 pandemic due to suspected higher risk of virus transmission. It was presumed that aerosols exhaled through tubes while playing would be ejected over larger distances and spread into room jet stream effects. In particular, soprano recorder is widely used as instrument in school classes for beginners all age groups their education, well contexts leisure professional concert...

10.1101/2022.04.05.22273294 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2022-04-06
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