Fig. 3.

(a) Viscoelastic alignment of monocytes in flow. The alignment takes place in a narrow round shaped capillary, before sedimentation forces can act in the aligned cells in wide squared shaped microfluidic channel. The entrance of the channel where scattering measurement have been performed is indicated by x₀, while 15 mm (l) downstream a second measurement position x₁ indicates the position, where DH observation have been performed. (b) Simulation model is illustrated; the indices n, c and l are used for nucleus, cytosol, and extracellular liquid, respectively. The nucleus is assumed to be in the center of the cell.