Quantitative analysis of locomotive behavior of human sperm head and tail

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 390-396

  Liu, Jun ^a   Leung, Clement ^a   Lu, Zhe ^a   Sun, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beating amplitude; hyaluronic acid (HA); multiple sperm tracking; sperm selection; sperm tail

Indexed keywords

DNA INTEGRITY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEAD MOTION; HEAD VELOCITY; HUMAN SPERM; HYALURONIC ACIDS; IN-VITRO; INVASIVE TECHNIQUES; NEW DEVICES; NONINVASIVE TECHNIQUE; SPERM CELLS; SPERM QUALITY; SPERM SELECTION; SPERM TAIL; SPERM TRACKING; TRACKING ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; ORGANIC ACIDS; TRACKING (POSITION);

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

DNA; HYALURONIC ACID;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DNA INTEGRATION; LOCOMOTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON HEAD; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; VELOCITY;

ALGORITHMS; CELL TRACKING; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; SPERM HEAD; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL;

EID: 84872557924     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2227319     Document Type: Article

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