Motions of trace particles and red blood cells in a PDMS microchannel with a co...

• Author(s): Leble, Vladimir ; Dias, Ricardo P. ; Lima, R. ; Fernandes, Carla S. ; Ishikawa, Takuji ; Imai, Yohsuke ; Yamaguchi, Takami
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/7065
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

This paper presents microflow visualizations of both pure water and red blood cells (RBCs) in a converging bifurcation. The visualizations are a combination of results obtained from a confocal micro-PTV system and an image analysis technique known as “Zproject” from ImageJ. Our preliminary qualitative results suggest that the cell-free layer that is formed in middle of the microchannel (after confluence apex) may play an important role on RBCs trajectories.