@inproceedings{b9122ac6c9bb43c68c88c5242477e41e,
title = "Microscale flow dynamics of red blood cells in microchannels: An experimental and numerical analysis",
abstract = "The blood flow dynamics in microcirculation depends strongly on the microvascular networks composed with short irregular vessel segments which are linked by numerous bifurcations. This paper presents the application of a confocal micro-PTV system to track RBCs through a rectangular polydimethysiloxane (PDMS) microchannel with a bifurcation. By using a confocal micro-PTV system, we have measured the effect of bifurcation on the flow behaviour of both fluorescent particles diluted in pure water and RBCs in concentrated suspensions. After performing simulations with the commercial finite element software package POLYFLOW{\textregistered}, some experimental results were compared with the numerical results and the limitations of these simulations were outlined.",
keywords = "Bifurcation, Blood flow, Microchannel, Microvascular networks",
author = "R. Lima and Fernandes, {C. S.} and R. Dias and T. Ishikawa and Y. Imai and T. Yamaguchi",
year = "2011",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-007-0011-6_17",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789400700109",
series = "Computational Methods in Applied Sciences",
publisher = "Springer Netherland",
pages = "297--309",
editor = "Tavares, {Jo{\~a}o Manuel} and Jorge, {R.M. Natal}",
booktitle = "Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing",
note = "2nd ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision andMedical Image processing, VIPimage 2009 ; Conference date: 14-10-2009 Through 16-10-2009",
}