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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hiroyuki Nakamoto, Hyogo-ken, JP;
Tokuhiro Okada, Hyogo-ken, JP;
Assignee:
TOA Medical Electronics Co., Ltd., Hyogo-ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356336 ; 356 73 ; 377 11 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically analyzing cells in urine using flow cytometry. The present invention includes means for converting scattered-light signals indicative of individual cells in a urine specimen into corresponding pulse signals, means for converting the pulse width of each pulse signal resulting from the aforementioned conversion into cell-diameter data in accordance with known cell diameters, and means for classifying and enumerating various cells in the urine in correlation with each item of cell-diameter data resulting from the conversion.