Automated tracking and laser micromanipulation of motile cells

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Stuhrmann, B ^a   Gogler M ^a   Betz, T ^a   Ehrlicher, A ^a   Koch, D ^a   Kas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OPTOMOLECULAR MECHANISMS; RADIATION PATTERNS; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER BEAMS; MICROMANIPULATORS; MORPHOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEUROLOGY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

CELLS;

EID: 17044372687     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1863812     Document Type: Article

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2. The program is available freely under the terms of the General Public License GPL software license, i.e., complete with the source code and freely usable and redistributable. For information on GPL see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. Please contact the corresponding author for a current version of the program or download directly under www.uni-leipzig.de/~pwm/kas/support/stuhrmann2004/supplemental.html.
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