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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

human blood solutions, multiple scattering events, organ transplantation

College

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology

Department

Chemical Engineering

Abstract

Recently, modem medical technology has enabled surgeons and other medical scientists to perform certain organ transplantation within human beings successfully. However, thromboembolization, the formation of thromboemboli (usually of irregular shapes with sizes approximately 10,000 times bigger than that of red blood cell), is likely to occur with such operations. The cause of the thromboemboli is believed to be the interaction between human blood and the foreign materials. Since thromboemboli is a much larger particles than normal blood cells (such as red blood cell, white blood cell and single platelet), their existence in the blood solution might be detrimental to the normal functions of the transplanted artificial organs in human beings. For example, the aggregate of thromboemboli may clog and hinder the normal blood flow in capillaries, thus causes further medical troubles to the patients.

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