Light scattering by aggregated red blood cells

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1408-1417

  Tsinopoulos, Stephanos V ^a,b   Sellountos, Euripides J ^a,b   Polyzos, Demosthenes ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LASER; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

BLOOD; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CELL MEMBRANES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HELIUM NEON LASERS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

RED BLOOD CELLS (RBC);

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0036489387     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001408     Document Type: Article

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