QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF AGGREGATED BLOOD-CELLS

We introduce indices which characterize morphological structure of the system of aggregated cells in a thin blood layer. The main quantitati ve characteristics of the system is the multifractal spectrum f(alpha) . Analysis of the f(alpha) profile for varying aggregation moments all ows to describe quantitatively the dymamics of formation and growth of cell aggregates as well as to determine the structural morphological changes during this aggregation. Other quantitative values describing the aggregation kinetics are the scaling exponents characterizing the power dependence of the cluster quantity n(s)(t) on the number of part icles in the cluster s and on the time moment t.