Traction force microscopy for linear and nonlinear elastic materials as a parameter identification inverse problem

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Main Authors: Sarnighausen, Gesa, Nguyen, Tram Thi Ngoc, Hohage, Thorsten, Sinha, Mangalika, Koester, Sarah, Betz, Timo, Schwarz, Ulrich Sebastian, Wald, Anne
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author Sarnighausen, Gesa
Nguyen, Tram Thi Ngoc
Hohage, Thorsten
Sinha, Mangalika
Koester, Sarah
Betz, Timo
Schwarz, Ulrich Sebastian
Wald, Anne
author_facet Sarnighausen, Gesa
Nguyen, Tram Thi Ngoc
Hohage, Thorsten
Sinha, Mangalika
Koester, Sarah
Betz, Timo
Schwarz, Ulrich Sebastian
Wald, Anne
contents Traction force microscopy is a method widely used in biophysics and cell biology to determine forces that biological cells apply to their environment. In the experiment, the cells adhere to a soft elastic substrate, which is then deformed in response to cellular traction forces. The inverse problem consists in computing the traction stress applied by the cell from microscopy measurements of the substrate deformations. In this work, we consider a linear model, in which 3D forces are applied at a 2D interface, called 2.5D traction force microscopy, and a nonlinear pure 2D model, from which we directly obtain a linear pure 2D model. All models lead to a linear resp. nonlinear parameter identification problem for a boundary value problem of elasticity. We analyze the respective forward operators and conclude with some numerical experiments for simulated and experimental data.
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spellingShingle Traction force microscopy for linear and nonlinear elastic materials as a parameter identification inverse problem
Sarnighausen, Gesa
Nguyen, Tram Thi Ngoc
Hohage, Thorsten
Sinha, Mangalika
Koester, Sarah
Betz, Timo
Schwarz, Ulrich Sebastian
Wald, Anne
Numerical Analysis
92-08, 35Q92, 35R30
Traction force microscopy is a method widely used in biophysics and cell biology to determine forces that biological cells apply to their environment. In the experiment, the cells adhere to a soft elastic substrate, which is then deformed in response to cellular traction forces. The inverse problem consists in computing the traction stress applied by the cell from microscopy measurements of the substrate deformations. In this work, we consider a linear model, in which 3D forces are applied at a 2D interface, called 2.5D traction force microscopy, and a nonlinear pure 2D model, from which we directly obtain a linear pure 2D model. All models lead to a linear resp. nonlinear parameter identification problem for a boundary value problem of elasticity. We analyze the respective forward operators and conclude with some numerical experiments for simulated and experimental data.
title Traction force microscopy for linear and nonlinear elastic materials as a parameter identification inverse problem
topic Numerical Analysis
92-08, 35Q92, 35R30
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19917