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A molecular communication system in blood vessels for the detection of hyperviscosity syndrome

Published: 25 September 2019 Publication History

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Hyperviscosity syndrome can significant increase the risk of many cardiovascular diseases. In this paper we propose a molecular communication system having the purpose of monitoring the blood viscosity. This system results to be both simple and effective for real time estimating the blood viscosity level without the need of resorting to invasive blood analyses. The essential idea is to leverage the statistics of the particle dispersion in a blood vessel as a function of blood viscosity. The viscosity estimation is essentially based on the measure the time needed to cover a given propagation range.

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NANOCOM '19: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication
September 2019
225 pages
ISBN:9781450368971
DOI:10.1145/3345312
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  1. Flow-based molecular communications
  2. blood vessel
  3. hyperviscosity
  4. simulation

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