Computer modeling of red blood cell rheology in the microcirculation: A brief overview

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 12 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 1724-1727

  Cristini, Vittorio ^a,b   Kassab, Ghassan S ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D boundary integrals; 3D mesh adaptivity; Microcirculation; Red blood cell

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODELING; RED BLOOD CELL (RBC);

BLOOD; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DEFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCIRCULATION;

CELL CULTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; MICROCIRCULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROCIRCULATION;

EID: 29844454985     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-005-8776-y     Document Type: Review

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