Effect of blood viscosity on thrombosis potential near a step wall transition

Proceedings of the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference 2009, SBC2009

Volumn , Issue PART A, 2009, Pages 457-458

  Corbett, Scott C ^a,b   Ajdari, Amin ^a   Coskun, Ahmet U ^a   N Hashemi, Hamid ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b Abiomed   (United States)

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EID: 77953949307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/SBC2009-206629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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