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Article: Estimated platelet and differential leucocyte counts by microscopy, Sysmex XE-2100 and CellaVision[TM] DM96.
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- New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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Introduction
The increased workload experienced by many haematology laboratories coupled with reductions in staff numbers has lead to the introduction of automated morphological analysis in laboratories. The improved processing capacity of computers combined with high resolution digital imaging technology has allowed for the development of systems which can pre-classify haematological cells, mostly leucocytes (1). The CellaVision[TM] DM96 is an imaging device intoduced into Canterbury Health Laboratories (CHL) in 2007. This paper reports on the performance of the DM96 to determine the leucocyte differential and compared the results with both manual differentials ...