The influence of red blood cell deformability on hematocrit profiles and platelet margination
Fig 1
Fit of the HemoCell RBC models (violins) to the elongation curves from the ektacytometry data (dashed lines).
The elongation indices from ektacytometry are colored red for healthy RBCs, green for RBCs treated in 0.5 mM TBHP, and blue for RBCs treated with 0.75 mM TBHP. Each numerical RBC is labeled by its resulting Young’s modulus (YM), and is shown as the violins which are colored red (YM 27.82 μN/m), green (YM 244.04 μN/m), and blue (YM 808.00 μN/m) to match the corresponding experimental models. The width of each violin plot highlights the distribution of elongation indices, Eq 1, computed over a time range of 35 milliseconds. The top, middle, and bottom horizontal black bars in each violin show the location of the max, mean, and min elongation index of the numerical models respectively.