Automated manipulation of non-spherical microobjects using optical tweezers combined with image processing techniques

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 15115-15122

  Tanaka, Yoshio ^a   Kawada, Hiroyuki ^b   Hirano, Ken ^a   Ishikawa, Mitsuru ^a   Kitajima, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a AIST Shikoku   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SPHERES;

IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; MATERIAL SCIENCE; MICRO MANIPULATION; NON-SPHERICAL; OPTICALTRAPPING; REAL-TIME FEATURES; RESEARCH FIELDS; TRAPPING BEAM;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROMANIPULATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; ROBOTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROMANIPULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 51849157431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015115     Document Type: Article

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