Recent progresses in optical trap-and-stretch of red blood cells

Guan Bo Liao, Yin-Quan Chen, Huai-Jen Fan, Artashes Karmenyan, Chi-Hung Lin, Wei-Hau Chang, Arthur Chiou, Jürgen Popp, Gert von Bally
2007 Biophotonics 2007: Optics in Life Science  
In this paper, we briefly review earlier approaches for optical stretching of red blood cells (RBCs) and introduce a novel approach based on oscillatory optical tweezers. Preliminary experimental data for optical trap-and-stretch of RBCs by two approaches, namely the counter-propagating dual-beam trap-and-stretch and the oscillatory optical tweezers, are presented and discussed.
doi:10.1117/12.728009 fatcat:jczhhxrwwrbe7e2nawxh33dvne