Abstract:
:Haematocrit and temperature effects on resistivity are investigated using the electrical impedance method. Measurements are made extensively for pig's blood. The experimental set-up basically involves four ring electrodes being placed around a wooden probe that is subsequently immersed into a syringe containing pig's blood. The syringe is then submerged in water maintained at a constant temperature while measurements are taken. The resistivity of blood is found to increase linearly by approximately 2.9% as the haematocrit level increases from 18% to 49% at a fixed temperature of 37 degrees C. Furthermore, the resistivity is found to decrease linearly by approximately 22% with temperature increasing from 33 degrees C to 42 degrees C for all practical levels of haematocrit.
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Med Biol Eng Computjournal_title
Medical & biological engineering & computingauthors
Tjin SC,Xie T,Lam YZdoi
10.1007/BF02523215keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
1998-07-01 00:00:00pages
467-70issue
4eissn
0140-0118issn
1741-0444journal_volume
36pub_type
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