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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 8.
Published in final edited form as: Biotechnol Prog. 2016 Jun 3;32(4):823–839. doi: 10.1002/btpr.2299

Figure 8.

Figure 8

Illustration of the concept of Dean flow focusing by which bacteria and platelets were separated from RBCs in slightly diluted blood. The Dean flow circulation cycles the bacteria and platelets from the outer wall to the inner wall and back to the outer wall while the RBCs get trapped near the inner wall of the curved channel. Reproduced from Ref. 70, with permission from Royal Society of Chemistry.