Rigorous solutions of scattering problems involving red blood cells

Author

Ergul, Ozgur ; Arslan-Ergul, Ayca ; Gurel, Levent

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Stat., Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

12-16 April 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We present rigorous solutions of scattering problems involving healthy red blood cells (RBCs) and diseased RBCs with deformed shapes. Scattering cross-section (SCS) values for different RBC shapes and different orientations are obtained accurately and efficiently using a sophisticated simulation environment based on the electric and magnetic current combined-field integral equation and the multilevel fast multipole algorithm. Using SCS values, we determine strict guidelines to distinguish deformed RBCs from healthy RBCs and to diagnose related diseases.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biological effects of fields; biomagnetism; blood; cellular biophysics; diseases; electric current; numerical analysis; patient diagnosis; scattering; shapes (structures); RBC orientation; RBC shape; SCS value; deformed shape; diseased RBC; electric and magnetic current combined-field integral equation; multilevel fast multipole algorithm; red blood cells; scattering crosssection; scattering problem; Diseases; Electromagnetic scattering; Frequency; Guidelines; Integral equations; MLFMA; Red blood cells; Shape; Sparse matrices; Transmission line matrix methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2010 Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6431-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-84-7653-472-4

Type

conf

Filename

5505058