Correlation of sperms' swimming force to their swimming speed assessed by optical tweezers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5930, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Vinson, Jaclyn ^a   Botvinick, Elliot ^b   Durrant, Barbara ^c   Berns, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical tweezers; Speed of Progression (SOP) Score; Sperm swimming force; Sperm swimming speed

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SPEED OF PROGRESSION (SOP) SCORE; SPERM SWIMMING FORCE; SPERM SWIMMING SPEED;

LASER BEAMS; STATISTICS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 31844434164     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.614505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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