Calculation of spherical red blood cell deformation in a dual-beam optical stretcher
Calculation of spherical red blood cell deformation in a dual-beam optical stretcher
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DOI:
10.1364/oe.15.016029
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发表时间:
2007-11-26
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3.8
通讯作者:
Chiou, Arthur
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作者:
Bareil, Paul B.;Sheng, Yunlong;Chiou, Arthur
We present a numerical method based on the linear elastic membrane theory to compute the morphological deformation of a spherical cell from the photonics stress distribution over the cellular membrane. The method is applied to fit the experimental data for deformation of a spherical human red blood cell trapped and stretched in a fiber-optical dual-beam trap with a single fitting parameter Eh where E is the Young's modulus of elasticity and h is the thickness of the cell membrane. We obtained Eh = (20 +/- 2)mu Nm(-1) which is comparable to results reported earlier. This numerical method can be applied in general experimental conditions. (c) 2007 Optical Society of America.