Dai H P, Feng R
Acoustics Institute, Nanjing University, People's Republic of China.
Ultrasonics. 1988 May;26(3):168-70. doi: 10.1016/0041-624x(88)90008-x.
A theoretical analysis of ultrasonic attenuation in aqueous suspensions of red blood cells was carried out. This verified the relative importance of several mechanisms: absorption accounts for 60% of the attenuation, viscous relative motion loss accounts for less than 30%, and the sound scattering contribution is negligible.