An expression relating the red blood cell (RBC) volume and membrane surface area to the pore minimum radius /maximum length which the cell is able to traverse is derived. The application of this analytical model to design/specification of filters for RBC deformability evaluation is presented. The passage of the RBC's through relatively long (10 microns or more) submicron radii pores, which the developed model demonstrates, is also discussed.
In this study, the analysis of a three-coil wireless power transfer (WPT) system, which can be divided into source, communication and load circuits, is discussed in details. Among the three-coil WPT systems features, it is demonstrated, for instance, that maximum efficiency (η MAX) and maximum power transferred to the load (P 3MAX) do not depend on the load resistance, neither on the mutual inductance between communication and load coils. In fact, it is shown that η MAX and P 3MAX depend only on source and communication circuits parameters. Practical results are also presented, showing good agreement with the developed theory and validating the proposed analysis.
Biotelemetric systems, especially those that employ implanted devices, work with inductive links, where usually large circular external coils are separated by relatively large distances (dimensions of centimeters) from the small (millimeter- or submillimeter-size) implanted coils. This paper shows that, under these conditions, a simplified method for calculation of the mutual inductance (M) between the coils, avoiding elliptic integrals, can be obtained. A procedure for coil design, with maximum M between them, is also described.
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