DryMass is a Python library and a command-line tool for manipulating and analyzing quantitative phase microscopy images of cell-sized objects. This is the documentation of DryMass version 0.9.1.

Documentation

• Introduction
  • What is DryMass?
  • What is quantitative phase imaging?
  • What are typical use cases of DryMass?
  • How should I cite DryMass?
• Theory Notes
  • Computation of cell dry mass
  • Relative and absolute dry mass
  • Range of validity
  • Default parameters in DryMass
• Getting started
  • Installing DryMass
  • Command-line interface
  • Configuration file
  • Troubleshooting
• Tutorials
  • T1: Bead analysis (CLI)
  • T2: HL60 cell analysis (CLI)
  • T3: Correcting for background and geometry (CLI)
  • T4: Automating the analysis of large datasets (CLI)
• Code examples
  • Dry mass computation with radial inclusion factor
  • Comparison of relative and absolute dry mass
• Code reference
  • Command-line interface
  • Data analysis
  • Helper classes and methods

• Changelog
• Bilbliography

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page