ID | 48974 |
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Hyakutake, Toru
Hashimoto, Yuki
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Abstract | This paper describes a study in which numerical simulations were applied to improve the separation efficiency of a microfluidic-based sperm sorter. Initially, the motion of 31 sperm were modeled as a sinusoidal wave. The modeled sperm were expected to move while vibrating in the fluid within the microchannel. In this analysis, the number of sperm extracted at the outlet channel and the rate of movement of the highly motile sperm were obtained for a wide range of flow velocities within the microchannel. By varying the channel height, and the width and the position of the sperm-inlet channel, we confirmed that the separation efficiency was highly dependent on the fluid velocity within the channel. These results will be valuable for improving the device configuration, and might help to realize further improvements in efficiency in the future.
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Keywords | Human reproduction
Microfluid
Numerical simulation
Separation efficiency
Sperm sorter
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Published Date | 2009-02
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Publication Title |
Biomedical Microdevices
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Volume | volume11
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Issue | issue1
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Publisher | Springer US
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Start Page | 25
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End Page | 33
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ISSN | 1387-2176
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Journal Article
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Research Core for Interdisciplinary Sciences
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Official Url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10544-008-9207-2
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English
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Copyright Holders | © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2008
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File Version | author
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True
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