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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 27.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2007 Nov 16;36(2):298–307. doi: 10.1007/s10439-007-9406-7

Figure 1. Reconstruction of 3D cell shape from 2D confocal images.

Figure 1

A) The 2D outlines of the cell are manually traced from confocal images. B) The outlines are then approximated by polygons and stacked together to form the body of the cell (below the red line). The top of the cell shape (above the red line) is reconstructed from extrapolated points based on the local curvature of the cell body.