Monitoring red blood cell aggregation with nuclear magnetic resonance.
We present a new application of nuclear magnetic resonance to monitor rouleaux formation in static blood suspensions of physiological hematocrit. The method measures the apparent mean residence time of water inside the rouleaux and yields the kinetics and the extent of red cell aggregation in units of cells per aggregate.
D000328:Adult; D002449:Cell Aggregation; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods; D008433:Mathematics