@inbook {1541332,
	title = {Tracking the Structural Deformation of a Sheared Biopolymer Network},
	booktitle = {Functional Analysis, Harmonic Analysis, and Image Processing: A Collection of Papers in Honor of Bj{\"o}rn Jawerth},
	volume = {693},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {255-269},
	abstract = {
	Biopolymer networks provide mechanical integrity in many important environments in vivo ranging from the cytoskeleton within a cell to the structural support of cells themselves in tissues and tendons. Rheolog-ical studies have shown that they exhibit many unique material properties. Modelling these properties requires a precise knowledge of how the individual filaments in the network deform locally during a global deformation. Here, we present an image processing method to track the three-dimensional motion of a biopolymer network as a simple shear deformation is applied. We track the structure of the network from one shear position to the next by determining the displacement of each branch point using a cross-correlation. To illustrate the use of this algorithm, we apply it to a fluorescently labelled fibrin network.

},
	url = {http://www.ams.org/books/conm/693/},
	author = {Jawerth, Louise M. and Weitz, DavidA.}
}
