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Systematic Assessment of Sperm Motility

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The Application of Laser Light Scattering to the Study of Biological Motion

Part of the book series: NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series ((NSSA,volume 59))

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Light scattering is becoming increasingly popular as an objective method of evaluating sperm motility.1–5 Studies on the effects of certain sperm stimulants necessitate continuous monitoring of control and treated samples for long periods of time.6 Here we describe briefly how such an experiment has been automated using an Apple II microcomputer. The autocorrelation function of the scattered light is computer fitted by theoretically appropriate functional forms to extract various parameters related to the sample motility.

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  1. Department of Pure and Applied Physics, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, USA

    J. C. Earnshaw & G. Munroe

  2. Department of Midwifery and Gynaecology, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, USA

    W. Thompson & A. Traub

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  1. The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Earnshaw, J.C., Munroe, G., Thompson, W., Traub, A. (1983). Systematic Assessment of Sperm Motility. In: Earnshaw, J.C., Steer, M.W. (eds) The Application of Laser Light Scattering to the Study of Biological Motion. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series, vol 59. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4487-2_41

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