Non-invasive viability assessment of day-4 frozen-thawed human embryos using near infrared spectroscopy

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 769-776

  Vergouw, Carlijn G ^a   Botros, Lucy L ^b   Judge, Kevin ^b   Henson, Mark ^b   Roos, Pieter ^b   Hanna Kostelijk, E ^a   Schats, Roel ^a   Twisk, Jos W R ^a   Hompes, Peter G A ^a   Sakkas, Denny ^b   Lambalk, Cornelis B ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Molecular Biometrics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

frozen thawed embryo; metabolomic profiling; near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy; non invasive embryo selection; single embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; METABOLOMICS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; METABOLOMICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 82855172061     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.08.015     Document Type: Article

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