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

Table 1

Average data corresponding to the age of 25 gestational weeks.

Parameter	Name	Value	Source
	Number of capillaries of the adult brain		[21]
	Weight of the adult brain	1.2 kg	[21]
	Weight of the infant brain of 25 gestational weeks	0.1 kg	[29]
	Weight part of the germinal matrix	0.023	[30]
	Weight of the germinal matrix for infants of 25 gestational weeks,	2.3 g	—
κ	Capillary density correction factor for the germinal matrix	1.5	[31]
	Number of capillaries of the germinal matrix for infants of 25 gestational weeks,		—
	Number of capillaries of the rest part of the brain of 25 gestational weeks,		—
	Arterial/venous pressure	34/5 mmHg	[28, 32]