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. 2012 Aug 27;7(8):e39491. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039491

Figure 1. Strong magnetic field gradient deflects sedimentation trajectories of high spin hemoglobin RBCs.

Figure 1

Examples of the computer screen output of the CTV software showing the trajectories of A) oxygenated RBCs (low spin hemoglobin) and B) methemoglobin-conatining RBCs (high spin hemoglobin). Note the horizontal component of the cell trajectory due to cell magnetophoresis along the horizontal lines of the magnetic force. The cell magnetophoretic mobility, m, was defined as the horizontal distance traveled by the cell divided by the time of the image sequence acquisition and by the local magnetic energy density gradient (see Eqn 1 in text).