Figure 2.

The mean-square amplitude of contour fluctuation modes versus the wave vector q_x, for the oxygenated and the deoxygenated state obtained by addition of Na₂S₂O₄. The solid lines correspond to the fit of the data using Eq. 1. Limiting behaviors are shown in bottom right, as discussed in the text. Each panel corresponds to the results of a single cell. Panels are divided by oxygenation state and cell shape, as marked. In this work we treated as spherocytes those cells of similar size to normal discocytes, but without the biconcave shape.