Microcirculation in Fractal Branching Networks

• Main Author: Takahashi, Tatsuhisa (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Ophthalmology.; Biomathematics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics.

This book presents a new method for analyzing the structure and function of the biological branching systems of fractal trees, with a focus on microcirculation. Branching systems in humans (vascular and bronchial trees) and those in the natural world (plants, trees, and rivers) are characterized by...

Table of Contents:

• Branching Systems of Fractal Vascular Trees
• A Theoretical Model for the Microcirculatory Network
• Oxygen Consumption by Vascular Walls in the Retinal Vasculature
• The Fåhraeus-Lindqvist Effect on the Retinal Microcirculation
• Effects of a Reduction in the Bifurcation Exponent from 3.00 to 2.85
• Asymmetrically B ranching Microvascular Networks.