Red blood cell distribution in simplified capillary networks

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1921, 2010, Pages 2897-2918

  Obrist, Dominik ^a   Weber, Bruno ^b   Buck, Alfred ^c   Jenny, Patrick ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bifurcation law; Capillary network; Microcirculation; Red blood cell transport

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BLOOD; CELLS; COMPUTATION THEORY; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; HEMOGLOBIN OXYGEN SATURATION; MICROCIRCULATION; OXYGEN SUPPLY;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BIFURCATION LAW; CAPILLARY NETWORK; COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; DE-MIXING; DETAILED MODELS; DISCRETE MODELS; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; GENERIC NETWORKS; HAEMATOCRIT; HUMAN ORGANISMS; NETWORK DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RED BLOOD CELL; SELF-REGULATION MECHANISMS; STEADY STATE; TWO-PHASE MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAPILLARY; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; PRESSURE; TIME;

CAPILLARIES; CELL MOVEMENT; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954510029     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0045     Document Type: Article

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