Fig. 1
From: A physiologically-based flow network model for hepatic drug elimination III: 2D/3D DLA lobule models
Various flow network structures. a Schematic diagram of a cross section of hepatic parenchyma consisting hexagonal lobules, portal and hepatic veins. The lobule contains sinusoids and liver cells (hepatocytes). The segment represents a typical area studied in our previous papers [8, 9]. b Homogeneous lattice (segmented area) with high porosity bands (in red) representing sinusoids and lower porosity regions (in blue) representing tissue containing hepatocytes, as in our previous papers [8, 9]. c 2D lobule lattice with sinusoids generated via a diffusion limited aggregation algorithm, this paper. d 3D lobule lattice, this paper