Quantitative analysis and comparison of 3D morphology between viable and apoptotic MCF-7 breast cancer cells and characterization of nuclear fragmentation

• Yuhua Wen,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Advanced Optics, Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, Yueyang, Hunan, China, School of Physics, Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, Yueyang, Hunan, China

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• Zhan Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jianfen Lu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Elizabeth Ables,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jean-Luc Scemama,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Li V. Yang,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jun Q. Lu,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Advanced Optics, Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, Yueyang, Hunan, China, Department of Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Xin-Hua Hu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hux@ecu.edu

  Affiliations Institute for Advanced Optics, Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, Yueyang, Hunan, China, Department of Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4353-9028

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