Plasma viscosity, haematocrit and red-cell transport.

@article{Nicol1982PlasmaVH,
  title={Plasma viscosity, haematocrit and red-cell transport.},
  author={C. Grant Nicol and John Harkness and Richard B. Whittington},
  journal={Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics},
  year={1982},
  volume={3 4},
  pages={
          303-18
        }
}
  • C. Nicol, J. Harkness, R. Whittington
  • Published 1 November 1982
  • Physics
  • Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics
An erythrocyte transport function (ETF) is proposed, as an index of the efficiency of the circulation of red cells. Under defined conditions, this ETF is shown to be proportional to the ratio of haematocrit to whole-blood viscosity (phi/eta), a ratio already used by Chien. The variations of phi/eta with phi, at selected driving pressures in a capillary viscometer, are presented, both for normal and for pathological blood samples. Maximal values of phi/eta appear generally to occur at… 
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