Capillary-loaded particle fluid dynamics: Effect on estimation of sperm concentration

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-122

  Douglas Hamilton, Diarmaid H ^a   Smith, Nancy G ^a   Kuster, Christopher E ^b   Vermeiden, Jan P W ^c   Althouse, Gary C ^d  

^a Hamilton Thorne Research   (United States)

^b Kuster Research and Consulting   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary slide; Concentration; Hemacytometer; Poiseuille; Segre Silberberg; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL MIGRATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOMETRY; FLUID FLOW; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; STROBOSCOPY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMEN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERM COUNT; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 10844295962     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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