TweezPal swMATH ID: 6048 Software Authors: Natan Osterman Description: TweezPal - Optical tweezers analysis and calibration software Optical tweezers, a powerful tool for optical trapping, micromanipulation and force transduction, have in recent years become a standard technique commonly used in many research laboratories and university courses. Knowledge about the optical force acting on a trapped object can be gained only after a calibration procedure which has to be performed (by an expert) for each type of trapped objects. In this paper we present TweezPal, a user-friendly, standalone Windows software tool for optical tweezers analysis and calibration. Using TweezPal, the procedure can be performed in a matter of minutes even by non-expert users. The calibration is based on the Brownian motion of a particle trapped in a stationary optical trap, which is being monitored using video or photodiode detection. The particle trajectory is imported into the software which instantly calculates position histogram, trapping potential, stiffness and anisotropy Homepage: http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/AEGR_v1_0.html Keywords: laser tweezers; optical trapping; calibration Related Software: Cited in: 1 Publication Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year TweezPal – optical tweezers analysis and calibration software. Zbl 1219.78003Osterman, Natan 2010 Cited by 1 Author 1 Osterman, Natan Cited in 1 Serial 1 Computer Physics Communications Cited in 3 Fields 1 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) 1 Computer science (68-XX) 1 Optics, electromagnetic theory (78-XX) Citations by Year