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Figure 4.

Quantification of RBC hypoperfusion in the developing retinal network. Qrbc∗ and Qblood∗ represent the normalized RBC flux and normalized blood flow in a given child vessel (with diameter D_vessel) relative to those in its parent vessel, respectively. The variable ΔQ∗=Qrbc∗−Qblood∗ serves as a disproportionality index of flow-mediated RBC partitioning, based on the sign of which the vessels are classified as ‘RBC-depletion’ (negative ΔQ*, yellow patch) and ‘RBC-enrichment’ (positive ΔQ*, green patch). The disproportionality indices for all investigated vessel segments are sorted against (a) vessel diameter D_vessel and (b) normalized blood flow Qblood∗. The analysed vessel segments in this plot are extracted from ROI-2, ROI-3 and ROI-4 (figure 1).

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