Disentangling Random Motion and Flow in a Complex Medium.
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SUBMITTER: Koslover EF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4744162 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
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Disentangling Random Motion and Flow in a Complex Medium.
Koslover Elena F EF Chan Caleb K CK Theriot Julie A JA
Biophysical journal 20160201 3
We describe a technique for deconvolving the stochastic motion of particles from large-scale fluid flow in a dynamic environment such as that found in living cells. The method leverages the separation of timescales to subtract out the persistent component of motion from single-particle trajectories. The mean-squared displacement of the resulting trajectories is rescaled so as to enable robust extraction of the diffusion coefficient and subdiffusive scaling exponent of the stochastic motion. We d ...[more]
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