Artículo
TFMLAB: A MATLAB toolbox for 4D traction force microscopy
Autor/es | Barrasa Fano, Jorge
Shapeti, Apeksha Jorge Peñas, Álvaro Barzegari, Mojtaba Sanz Herrera, José Antonio Van Oosterwyck, Hans |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Mecánica de Medios Continuos y Teoría de Estructuras |
Fecha de publicación | 2021-07 |
Fecha de depósito | 2022-09-28 |
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Resumen | We present TFMLAB, a MATLAB software package for 4D (x;y;z;t) Traction Force Microscopy (TFM). While various TFM computational workflows are available in the literature, open-source programs that are easy to use by researchers ... We present TFMLAB, a MATLAB software package for 4D (x;y;z;t) Traction Force Microscopy (TFM). While various TFM computational workflows are available in the literature, open-source programs that are easy to use by researchers with limited technical experience and that can analyze 4D in vitro systems do not exist. TFMLAB integrates all the computational steps to compute active cellular forces from confocal microscopy images, including image processing, cell segmentation, image alignment, matrix displacement measurement and force recovery. Moreover, TFMLAB eases usability by means of interactive graphical user interfaces. This work describes the package's functionalities and analyzes its performance on a real TFM case |
Agencias financiadoras | Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte de España Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de España (MINECO) Consejo Europeo de Investigación Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) KU Leuven Hercules |
Identificador del proyecto | 1S68818N
G085018N V413019N 2014TC16RFCB046 CAS17/00096 PGC2018-097257-B-C31 308223 G0H6316N C14/17/111 |
Cita | Barrasa Fano, J., Shapeti, A., Jorge Peñas, Á., Barzegari, M., Sanz Herrera, J.A. y Van Oosterwyck, H. (2021). TFMLAB: A MATLAB toolbox for 4D traction force microscopy. SoftwareX, 15, Article number 100723. |
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