Comparison of three commercially available ektacytometers with different shearing geometries

Biorheology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 251-264

  Baskurt, Oguz K ^a   Hardeman, M R ^b   Uyuklu, Mehmet ^a   Ulker, Pinar ^a   Cengiz, Melike ^a   Nemeth, Norbert ^c   Shin, Sehyun ^d   Alexy, Tamas ^e   Meiselman, Herbert J ^e  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^d Korea University   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ektacytometry; Erythrocyte deformability

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRY; EKTACYTOMETRY; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE SHAPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NORMAL HUMAN; SHEAR STRESS;

ADULT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTES; GLUTARAL; HEMORHEOLOGY; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 68649126581     PISSN: 0006355X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/BIR-2009-0536     Document Type: Article

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