Computational study of scattering from healthy and diseased red blood cells

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Ergül, Özgür ^a   Arslan Ergül, Ayça ^a   Gürel, Levent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Multilevel fast multipole algorithm; Red blood cell; Surface formulations

Indexed keywords

COMBINED FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DEFORMED SHAPE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; MAGNETIC CURRENTS; MULTI-LEVEL FAST MULTI-POLE ALGORITHM; RED BLOOD CELL; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; SCATTERING PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

SCATTERING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERYTHROCYTE DISORDER; HUMAN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERYTHROCYTES, ABNORMAL; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79952202242     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3467493     Document Type: Article

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