Multiple red blood cell flows through microvascular bifurcations: Cell free layer, cell trajectory, and hematocrit separation

Microvascular Research

Volumn 89, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-56

  Yin, Xuewen ^a   Thomas, Tancred ^a   Zhang, Junfeng ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMEDICINE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRESS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; HEMATOCRIT; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMMERSION; MICROCIRCULATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SHEAR STRESS; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELL SEPARATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PRESSURE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84883191071     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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