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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2019
Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland Gmbh, Bad Homburg, DE;
Ansgar Erlenkoetter, St. Wendel, DE;
Lukas Utzig, St. Wendel, DE;
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, Bad Homburg, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a device () and a corresponding method for determining residual blood in a dialyzer () comprising a holding device () configured to accommodate a dialyzer (), an image capturing device () configured to capture at least one image of a dialyzer () accommodated by the holding device (), in particular a filter () located in the dialyzer (), and generate corresponding image data having a plurality of image points, each of which assigned at least one respective intensity value, in particular a color value, and a control device () configured to determine residual blood information characterizing the presence and/or content of residual blood in the dialyzer () on the basis of a statistical frequency of at least a portion of the intensity values in the at least one image. The invention further relates to a dialysis system having such a device ().