Autonomous zebrafish embryo injection using a microrobotic system

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE CASE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 363-368

  Wang, W H ^a   Liu, X Y ^a   Sun, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antisense morpholinos; Automation; Computer vision; Microrobotic cell injection; Microrobotic control; Zebrafish embryos

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANTISENSE MORPHOLINOS; MICROROBOTIC CELL INJECTION; MICROROBOTIC CONTROL; ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 44449124277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COASE.2007.4341701     Document Type: Conference Paper

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