0426 : SarcOptiM, an ImageJ plug-in for cardiomyocyte contractility recording
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SarcOptiM for ImageJ: high-frequency online sarcomere length computing on stimulated cardiomyocytes.
Accurate measurement of cardiomyocyte contraction is a critical issue for scientists working on cardiac physiology and physiopathology of diseases implying contraction impairment. Cardiomyocytes contraction can be quantified by measuring sarcomere length, but few tools are available for this, and none is freely distributed. We developed a plug-in (SarcOptiM) for the ImageJ/Fiji image analysis p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases Supplements
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1878-6480
DOI: 10.1016/s1878-6480(16)30443-8