Determination of Femto Newton forces and fluid viscosity using optical tweezers - Application to Leishmania amazonensis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5699, Issue , 2005, Pages 419-425

  Fontes, Adriana ^a   Giorgio, Selma ^a   De Castro Jr , Archimedes B ^b   Neto, Vivaldo M ^b   De Pozzo, Liliana Y ^a   Marques, Gustave P ^a   Barbosa, Luís C ^a   Cesar, Carlos L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Calibration; Force and viscosity; Integrating sphere; Optical tweezers

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DISEASES; DNA; FORCE MEASUREMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEWTONIAN FLOW; OPTICAL DEVICES; POLYSTYRENES; TRANSDUCERS;

FETMO NEWTON FORCES; FORCE AND VISCOSITY; INTEGRATING SPHERE; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

EID: 21844459988     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.586427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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