Abstract
There is no direct method for measuring the optical pressures that stretch biological cells in the optical stretcher. A hybrid computational method has been developed to quantify the deformation of living cells.
- Title
- Hybrid ray optics and continuum mechanics modeling of cell deformation in the optical stretcher
- Creators
- Andrew E. Ekpenyong (Author) - Department of PhysicsM. G. Nichols (Author) - Department of Physics
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in Optics, FiO 2007
- Conference
- Frontiers in Optics, FiO 2007 (San Jose, CA, United States, 09/16/2007 - 09/16/2007)
- Series
- Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
- Publisher
- Optical Society of America
- Identifiers
- 991005929970002656
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper