Traction force microscopy on soft elastic substrates: A guide to recent computational advances

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research

Volumn 1853, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3095-3104

  Schwarz, Ulrich S ^a   Soiné, Jérôme R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin cytoskeleton; Cell forces; Cell matrix adhesion; Cellular biophysics; Elasticity theory; Mechanobiology; Traction force microscopy

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; CELL SURFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELASTICITY; EXTRACTION; FORCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROSCOPY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACTION FORCE MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84944153808     PISSN: 01674889     EISSN: 18792596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2015.05.028     Document Type: Review

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