Flow analysis of red blood cell through microvascular bifurcations

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 33, Issue , 1997, Pages 567-572

  Amini, Javid A ^a   Fallahyan, Fatholah ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Converging; Diverging; Flow; Microvessel; Modeling; Pressure; RBC

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CELL MOTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MESENTERY BLOOD FLOW; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULATURE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMORHEOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RATS;

EID: 0031429457     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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