Application of a numerical simulation to improve the separation efficiency of a sperm sorter

Biomedical Microdevices

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-33

  Hyakutake, Toru ^a   Hashimoto, Yuki ^a   Yanase, Shinichiro ^a   Matsuura, Koji ^b   Naruse, Keiji ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human reproduction; Microfluid; Numerical simulation; Separation efficiency; Sperm sorter

Indexed keywords

HUMAN REPRODUCTION; MICROFLUID; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; SPERM SORTER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROCHANNELS; SEPARATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CELL SORTER; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROFLUIDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; SIMULATION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; THREE INLET THREE OUTLET MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL SYSTEM; TWO INLET TWO OUTLET MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL SYSTEM; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SEPARATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 59949098187     PISSN: 13872176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10544-008-9207-2     Document Type: Article

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