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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1996
Masayuki Katayama, Miki, JP;
TOA Medical Electronics Co., Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
An analyzer for analyzing urine material components includes: a sheath flow cell for forming a sample stream containing the urine material components; a light source for illuminating the sample stream; a section for detecting optical information from the illuminated material component particles; and an analyzing section for analyzing the material components; the analyzing section including section for extracting parameters from the detected optical information, a section for generating first and second distribution diagrams on the basis of the extracted parameters, an inputting section for inputting a domain in the first distribution diagrams, a domain determining section for clustering the material component particles according to the kind of material component to define a domain for each of the material components in at least one of the first and second distribution diagrams, and a section for computing the number of data points of material component particles simultaneously belonging to a domain in the first distribution diagram inputted from the inputting section and a domain in the second distribution diagram defined by the domain determining section.