Structural analysis of moving blood from the viewpoint of new principles of circulation mechanics.
A J Tector, David C. Kress, Terence M. Schmahl, Svein Roar Amundsen · PubMed · 1994
The discovery has been made of the previously unknown phenomenon of concentrical spiral separation of blood microparticles consisting in the fact that in blood flow there exists a strictly ordered layered distribution of microparticles according to their size and mass conditioned by the laminar vortical blood flow in the circulation system, the heaviest particles constituting the axial nucleus of the flow and the lightest particles consisting parietal layers.