Fig. 5: Comparison of blood clot and human plaque detection inside graft:-. Late-stage complications of graft failure.
From: Realtime monitoring of thrombus formation in vivo using a self-reporting vascular access graft
A–C Comparison of heparinised blood as control versus different blood clot of the same mass. D Human ex vivo plaque from carotid endarterectomy specimens representing cellular restenotic tissue detected; impedance of a lipid-rich region of explanted carotid artery versus calcified region. E Comparison of blood clots by area under the curve of the frequency spectrum mean ± SEM (N = 3 independent biological repeats), test degrees of freedom = 2. E Blood clot Area under the curve analysis. F Human plaque comparison of impedances at 100 kHz. Mean ± SEM (N = 3), t-test, degrees of freedom = 2. Blood vs. Clot A **p < 0.01, Blood vs. clot B **p < 0.01. Blood vs. clot C ***p < 0.001. Exact p-values are in the Supplementary Data.
