A Critical Reassessment of the Hess–Murray Law

The Hess–Murray law is a correlation between the radii of successive branchings in bi/trifurcated vessels in biological tissues. First proposed by the Swiss physiologist and Nobel laureate Walter Rudolf Hess in his 1914 doctoral thesis and published in 1917, the law was “rediscovered” by the America...

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Main Author: Enrico Sciubba
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-08-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/18/8/283