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The erythrocyte-stasis-meter (ESM): a device to determine a universal parameter for the flow characteristics of blood
Biorheology. Supplement : the Official Journal of the International Society of Biorheology
|January 1, 1984
Abstract:
A new experimental method is described which permits estimation of flow ability of blood: measuring the yield shear stress with the erythrocyte-stasis-meter (ESM). This method is based on the phenomenon that pathological blood under low pressure behaves like a solid body. Knowing the pressure difference at the transition point from solid to fluid behavior and the geometry of the channel, the yield shear stress can be calculated.