title: Calculation of dielectric spectra of suspensions of rod-shaped cells using boundary element method.
abstract: The boundary element method (BEM) has been applied to the calculation of dielectric spectra of suspensions of rod-shaped cells using two kinds of models: model-R consisting of a cylinder and two hemispheres and model-PU of prolate spheroid shape. Both models have an insulating shell phase of a uniform thickness. The calculations were compared with those using a conventional spheroidal model with a confocal shell (model-PC) and previous observations on rod-shaped yeast cells. The differences among the three models were not considerable and all the models succeeded in interpreting the observed data on yeast cells.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University, 5-11-80 Kodatsuno, Kanazawa 920-0942, Japan. sekine@kenroku.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Katsuhisa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sekine
authors.forename: Nobue
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Torii
authors.forename: Chihiro
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kuroda
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Asami
mesh_terms: D008954:Models, Biological; D010316:Particle Size; D055672:Static Electricity