High-throughput lensfree 3D tracking of human sperms reveals rare statistics of helical trajectories

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 16018-16022

  Su, Ting Wei ^a   Xue, Liang ^a,b   Ozcan, Aydogan ^a,c,d  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital holography; Human sperm imaging; Micro swimmer; Sperm tracking

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHY; HELICAL TRAJECTORY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HOLOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPERM; SPERM TRACKING; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CELL MOVEMENT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HOLOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCHIP ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84867064863     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212506109     Document Type: Article

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