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In the human cardiovascular system, there are more than 1010 capillary blood vessels the diameter of which is about the same size as that of blood cells. When blood flows through the capillaries, the blood cells have to be squeezed, deformed and move in single files. This makes it very difficult to analyse blood flow in these microscopic blood vessels in terms of classical mechanical quantities. The focus of this chapter is the application of known quantum mechanical formulations and models to the Bloch NMR flow equations; it provides a theoretical foundation that may enhance accurate understanding of the transport of nanodevices in microscopic blood vessels used in nanomedicine.
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Dada, M.O., Awojoyogbe, B.O. (2021). Quantum Mechanical Model of the Bloch NMR Flow Equations for Transport Analysis of Quantum-Drugs in Microscopic Blood Vessels Applicable in Nanomedicine. In: Computational Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Neuro-oncology. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76728-0_7
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