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7609369 Methods of detection of iron deficiency and hemochromatosis  
New diagnostic parameters or indexes for detection of absolute iron deficiency, latent iron deficiency, functional iron deficiency, or latent functional iron deficiency have been disclosed. The...
7605388 Monitoring and control system for blood processing  
The invention relates to an optical cell for a separation chamber of a density centrifuge blood processing system for separating fluid components comprising an extraction chamber having a first...
7602954 Method for quantitative video-microscopy and associated system and computer software program product  
A method of determining an amount of at least one molecular species in a sample from an image of the sample captured by an image acquisition device is provided, each molecular species being...
7593108 Method of determining analyte concentration in a sample using infrared transmission data  
A method determines an analyte concentration in a sample. The sample includes the analyte and a substance. The method includes providing absorption data of the sample. The method further includes...
7590500 System for high dynamic range analysis in flow cytometry  
A flow cytometer capable of using electronics to analyze a large dynamic range while avoiding and/or correcting traditional limitations of acquisition electronics. The invention allows for...
7586610 Component measuring device  
A component measuring device for measuring the quantity and/or the property of a given component in a specimen by calorimetrically measuring a test strip includes a tip mount on which is to be...
7586604 Optical apparatus  
Various optical apparatus, in particular embodiments, may provide a source of parallel light ( 7, 75 ). The parallel light ( 7, 75 ) may be generally achieved by directing an incident beam at the...
7586589 Methods of determination of responsiveness to erythropoietin treatment  
Methods for determining the responsiveness of a patient to recombinant human erythropoietin therapy are disclosed. In one approach, the method includes obtaining a volume-Hgb factor (VHf) defined...
7580120 Blood analyzer, sample analyzer, and flow cytometer  
A sample analyzer is provided that is capable of eliciting sufficient performance of an avalanche photodiode, and performing high-precision analysis of the sample. The sample analyzer is provided...
7561256 Method and apparatus for determining blood oxygen  
A measuring cell for receiving a blood sample is designed such that it can be transilluminated with a light source. The light source and a means for determining the luminous intensity corresponding...
7551282 Body fluid constituents measurement device  
A body fluid constituents measurement device, which performs measurement under a setting where light intensity of the light-emitting element is suitably stabilized, is provided. The present...
7542131 Apparatus for measuring blood cell deformability  
A disposable blood test kit inserted into an instrument for measuring the blood cell deformability is provided to avoid a washing process during a blood test. The instrument comprises a disposable...
7538861 Cytological imaging system and method  
The present invention relates to the analysis of cytological material. Specifically, the invention relates to stains and methods of producing the stains, methods of staining cells for cytological...
7529576 Device and method for measuring blood flow in an organ  
A device has a source for emitting near infrared radiation into cerebral tissue, a sensor for detecting radiation exiting from the tissue, and an evaluation unit which detects the exiting radiation...
7515265 Imaging systems and methods to improve backscattering imaging using circular polarization memory  
An optical technique to improve the imaging of a target inside suspensions of scattering particles includes the illumination of the scattering particles with circularly polarized light. The...
7508498 Apparatus with a combination of a point light source and a single lens  
An apparatus with a combination of a point light source and a single lens is provided. The present apparatus includes a point light source, a photodetector and a lens. The lens is placed in the...
7499170 System and method for reading a test strip  
A system and method is disclosed which relates to reading test strips. The method may include reading and storing initial values of a front photodiode and a rear photodiode, reading current values...
7495751 Measuring apparatus  
A measuring apparatus is provided with a light source ( 4 ), a first light-receiving element ( 5 ) and a second light-receiving element ( 6 ) which output signals corresponding to light intensity,...
7493219 Method of discriminating particle groups and particle analyzer  
A method for discriminating particle groups comprises generating, by a particle analyzer, a particle characteristic distribution histogram in which the abscissa indicates respective channels for...
7480032 Device and method for in vitro determination of analyte concentrations within body fluids  
A reagentless whole-blood analyte detection system that is capable of being deployed near a patient has a source capable of emitting a beam of radiation that includes a spectral band. The...
7477404 Method for analyzing a sample on a test element and analysis system for same  
The invention relates to embodiments of a method and a system for monitoring the correct positioning of a test element in a test element receptacle of an analysis unit, the test element carrying a...
7463343 Sensing systems and methods for differentiating between different cellular blood species during extracorporeal blood separation or processing  
Systems and related methods sense the presence of targeted cellular blood species during extracorporeal blood separation or processing. The systems and methods tailor the sensing parameters to the...
7460222 Measuring device for the optical analysis of a test strip  
The invention concerns a measuring device for the optical analysis of a diagnostic test element ( 10 ) comprising a light source ( 16 ), a photodetector ( 24 ) and a device ( 12 ) for positioning...
7453555 Aggregometer with near ultraviolet light source  
An aggregometer has a radiation path along which radiation can pass, a sample receiving area located along the radiation path, a short-wavelength LED that transmits radiation along the radiation...
7450224 Determination of the boundaries between fractions and extraction of selected fractions in a fractionated sample  
An apparatus and method are provided for determining boundaries between fractions in a fractionated sample. The method includes the steps of providing the fractionated sample in a receptacle, the...
7450223 Sample analyzer  
A sample analyzer including a detection unit for irradiating a biological sample with light and obtaining optical information; a cell classification processor for classifying cells contained in the...
7444005 Apparatus and method for using optical mouse engine to determine speed, direction, position of scanned device and to obtain quantitative or qualitative data from same  
A test strip reader is provided with an optical mouse integrated circuit sensor that reads the test line, reference line and control line of a lateral flow assay strip by light absorption and...
7436511 Analyte filter method and apparatus  
The invention comprises a method and apparatus for enhancing the analysis of noninvasive spectra, resulting in improved analytical performance. More particularly, the invention comprises a method...
7433026 Microscope with LED illumination source  
Techniques are provided for illuminating cytological specimens using light emitting diodes (LEDs). In one implementation, a pulse width modulated (PWM) LED source allows for color and intensity...
7430039 Sensor  
Sensors are provided which enable detection with a high sensitivity in microchemistry and biochemical analysis by using devices integrated into a compact configuration and can be freely disposed on...
7420660 Systems and methods for optically sensing characteristics of a blood flow  
Systems and methods for optically sensing characteristics of a blood flow provide a light source having a driver circuit that includes a source of constant current and a modulator that modulates...
7420659 Flow control system of a cartridge  
An apparatus having a disposable cytometer cartridge containing pumps, pressure chambers, reservoirs, flow sensors, flow channels, and microfluidic circuits with fluid operations on the cartridge....
7420658 Method and device for measurements in blood  
We present an optical probe arrangement that surrounds blood in a receptacle. It comprises LED's and light detector arranged to overcome the variations when the receptacle is translucent medical...
7415144 Cell observation device and cell observation method  
The cell observation device and method aims to easily study the correlation between initial states of cells and their reactions without using a synchronous culture method. For this purpose, the...
7411680 Device for counting micro particles  
A device for counting micro particles is presented. The device comprises a light source; a chip containing micro particles; an object lens; a CCD camera; a counting part; and a shifter for shifting...
7410809 Particle or cell analyzer and method  
A particle analyzer in which tagged particles to be analyzed are drawn through a suspended capillary tube where a predetermined volume in the capillary tube is illuminated. The illumination...
7391516 Optical element for measuring information of living body and device for measuring information of living body using the optical element  
The present invention provides an optical element for measuring information of living body for noninvasively measuring a body fluid component in a test sample of living body with high accuracy,...
7388202 Method and apparatus for determining an analyte concentration in a sample having interferents  
A method and apparatus are described that permit an analyte concentration to be estimated from a measurement in the presence of compounds that interfere with the measurement. The method reduces the...
7381195 Hematocrit sensor  
The present invention relates to a hematocrit sensor and a method for measuring hematocrit values using such a device, which comprises a hematocrit sensor in a blood circuit that measures...
7379167 Hemoglobin test strip and analysis system  
The apparatus and method for quickly measuring the hemoglobin content of a sample of blood uses a light reflectance measurement of the hemoglobin sample lysed in a membrane. The reflection is...
7369218 Analysis disc with analysis object  
An analysis apparatus capable of normally creating image data and an analysis disc used for this. Instead of using a signal which has been read in time series by pickup following a track so as to...
7355685 Stroboscopic LED light source for blood processing apparatus  
The invention relates to apparatus for controlling the processing of blood into blood components, particularly components for stroboscopic LED light sources for centrifuges. The stroboscopic...
7342652 Biomedical optical device and biomedical optical measuring method  
Light having a wavelength to be absorbed by a target object is irradiated from a light irradiating unit toward a subject while varying its intensity in the course of time. At least two detecting...
7333193 Analysis apparatus irradiating detection light and reading state of analysis object  
An analysis apparatus capable of normally creating image data and an analysis disc used for this. Instead of using a signal which has been read in time series by pickup following a track so as to...
7333186 Method and device for measuring biological information  
In order to precisely determine a stable measuring region appropriate for a measurement of biological information, and to measure a concentration of a specific component, i.e. biological...
7326579 Immunoassay method for lyzed whole blood  
The present invention provides an immunoassay method in which blood can be measured even without pretreatment by means of a centrifuge etc. In the present invention, antibodies or antigens in a...
7324694 Fluid sample analysis using class weights  
Most automatic particle classification methods produce errors. The invention provides a method for improving the accuracy of particle classification while shortening the amount of manual review...
7315378 Optical arrangement for assay reading device  
Disclosed, in one aspect, is an assay result reading device for reading the result of an assay performed using a test strip, the device comprising: a light source or sources, said light source/s...
7300797 Lysis reagent for blood cell analysis  
A multifunctional reagent for erythrocytes containing an amount sufficient to produce the lysis of erythrocytes or the sphering of erythrocytes in such a way that they can be detected by a...
7289218 Optical component for directing electromagnetic radiation  
A passive optical component directs first electromagnetic radiation incident on the component in a first direction and second electromagnetic radiation incident on the component in a second...