title: Theoretical analysis of sound attenuation mechanisms in blood and in erythrocyte suspensions.
abstract: A theoretical analysis of the effect of the elasticity of cell membranes on sound attenuation in blood and erythrocyte suspensions was carried out. It is shown that the shell model of a cell adequately describes the attenuation in red blood cell suspensions. The contribution of viscous drag losses to the sound attenuation decreases with frequency, and at a frequency of 1 MHz it can be as high as 44% in water suspensions of erythrocytes and 24% in blood.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow.
authors.forename: P V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Zinin
mesh_terms: D001769:Blood; D004548:Elasticity; D004912:Erythrocytes; D006801:Humans; D014465:Ultrasonics; D014783:Viscosity