Accounting for Tube Hematocrit in Modeling of Blood Flow in Cerebral Capillary Networks

Figure 12

The scaled total resistance of the brain capillary network for different values of tube hematocrit: solid line—Piechnik’s model immediately based on experimental data; red asterisks—the case of 3-edge random topology; blue hollow circles—the case of 4-edge random topology. The dashed lines demonstrate linear dependency of the resistance on the hematocrit level. The scale factor for the vertical axis is equal to . Note that this simulation shows the sensitivity of the method against the change of the hematocrit level and random topology.