Summarizing the motion of self-propelled cells: Applications to sperm motility

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 537-543

  Dunson, D B ^a   Weinberg, C R ^a   Perreault, S D ^b   Chapin, R E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

CASA; Complexity theory; Fractal random walk

Indexed keywords

CASA; COMPLEXITY THEORY; DISPLACEMENT VELOCITY; EXPONENTIAL MODELS; FRACTAL RANDOM WALK; MOTION CHARACTERISTICS; OTHER STATISTICS; RANDOM WALK; SPERM MOTILITY; TRACKING RATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; LINEAR SYSTEM; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RAT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICS; VELOCITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033045224     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.00537.x     Document Type: Article

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