Complex dynamics of human red blood cell flickering: Alterations with in vivo aging
Madalena Costa, Ionita Ghiran, C.-K. Peng, Anne Nicholson-Weller, and Ary L. Goldberger
Human red blood cells (RBCs) exhibit vibratory motions, referred to as flickering. Their dynamical properties, classically attributed to thermal mechanisms, have not been fully characterized. Using detrended fluctuation analysis and multiscale entropy methods, we show that the short-term flickering ... [Phys. Rev. E 78, 020901 (2008)] published Fri Aug 1, 2008.