Novel device for male infertility screening with single-ball lens microscope and smartphone

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 574-578

  Kobori, Yoshitomo ^a,b   Pfanner, Peter ^b   Prins, Gail S ^b   Niederberger, Craig ^b  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Infertility; semen analysis; sperm concentration; sperm motility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPUTER ASSISTED SPERM ANALYSIS SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS DEVICE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BALL LENS MICROSCOPE; SMARTPHONE; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; UROLOGICAL DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; INFERTILITY, MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOBILE APPLICATION; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE;

HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SMARTPHONE; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84978477149     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.05.027     Document Type: Article

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