Optimal intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection with a piezo micromanipulator

Proceedings of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1120-1123

  Tan, K K ^a   Ng, S C ^a   Xie, Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER CONTROL; MICROACTUATORS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

INTRA-CYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; PIEZO MICROMANIPULATOR; TAGUCHI METHOD;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0036956153     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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