A unified resistor-capacitor model for impedance, dielectrophoresis, electrorotation, and induced transmembrane potential

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1107-1116

  Gimsa, Jan ^a   Wachner, Derk ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC FIELD; HEMOLYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MODEL; POLARIZATION;

EID: 0031820881     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77600-3     Document Type: Article

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