Bioengineering studies of the embryo transfer procedure

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1101, Issue , 2007, Pages 21-37

  Eytan, Osnat ^a   Elad, David ^b   Jaffa, Ariel J ^a,b  

^a LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computational model; Injection speed; Laboratory model; Mock embryo transfer; Uterine position

Indexed keywords

AIR; BIOENGINEERING; CATHETER; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INJECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERISTALSIS; SIMULATION; UTERINE FUNDUS; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34250646222     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1389.028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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