Fig. 2: Microvascular network and effect of compression on vessel haematocrit distribution. | Communications Physics

Fig. 2: Microvascular network and effect of compression on vessel haematocrit distribution.

From: Effect of vessel compression on blood flow in microvascular networks and its implications for tumour tissue hypoxia

Fig. 2

a Depiction of the network in which the blood flow simulations are performed. The blue vessels are treated as normal (uncompressed) blood vessels, the red vessels are treated as compressed vessels, also called compressed regions. The inlet is at the bottom left, and the outlet is at the top right. b Violin plots of haematocrit distribution within the vessel network. Blue and red lines correspond to blue and red vessels in a, respectively. The `control' case treats all vessels as normal vessels. The 'abnormal partitioning and resistance' case treats compressed vessels as having an increased resistance and abnormal partitioning. The 'abnormal partitioning̀ case treats compressed vessels as having just abnormal partitioning. The `resistance' case treats compressed vessels as having just increased resistance. See Table 1 for further details about the four cases. The violin plots contain the individual data points in the distribution, displayed as black lines.

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