Dr Andrew E. Ekpenyong

Associate Professor of Physics. BPhil (Rome), BD (Rome), MS (Physics, Creighton, USA), PhD (Physics, Cambridge, UK)

Hybrid Ray Optics and Continuum Mechanics Modeling of Cell Deformation in the Optical Stretcher


Journal article


Andrew E. Ekpenyong, M. Nichols
2007

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Ekpenyong, A. E., & Nichols, M. (2007). Hybrid Ray Optics and Continuum Mechanics Modeling of Cell Deformation in the Optical Stretcher.


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Ekpenyong, Andrew E., and M. Nichols. “Hybrid Ray Optics and Continuum Mechanics Modeling of Cell Deformation in the Optical Stretcher” (2007).


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Ekpenyong, Andrew E., and M. Nichols. Hybrid Ray Optics and Continuum Mechanics Modeling of Cell Deformation in the Optical Stretcher. 2007.


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@article{andrew2007a,
  title = {Hybrid Ray Optics and Continuum Mechanics Modeling of Cell Deformation in the Optical Stretcher},
  year = {2007},
  author = {Ekpenyong, Andrew E. and Nichols, M.}
}

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.