Statistical Dynamics of Flowing Red Blood Cells by Morphological Image Processing
Figure 4
Shear-induced diffusion coefficients.
The top panel (a) shows the hydrodynamic diffusion coefficient D as a function of the bulk flow velocity Vbulk for flows fast enough for the diffusive behavior to be recovered, i.e. Vbulk>∼50 µm/s based on Figure 3. The bottom panel (b) compares this relationship for soft oxygenated sickle cells and stiff deoxygenated sickle cells where we see that Ddeoxygenated<Doxygenated. Error bars show medians and standard error for binned data.