Red blood cell clustering in Poiseuille microcapillary flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Tomaiuolo, Giovanna ^a,b   Lanotte, Luca ^a,b,c   Ghigliotti, Giovanni ^d   Misbah, Chaouqi ^c   Guido, Stefano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; DROPS; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; PRESSURE DROP;

APPLIED PRESSURE; CLUSTER STABILITY; HIGH-SPEED VIDEO; MICRO-CAPILLARIES; MICRO-CAPILLARY FLOWS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RANGE; SIZE POLYDISPERSITY; THROMBUS FORMATION;

CELLS;

EID: 84861976587     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4721811     Document Type: Article

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