Ultra-rare-event detection performance of a custom scanning cytometer on a model preparation of fetal nRBCs

Cytometry

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 285-294

  Bajaj, Shruti ^a   Welsh, John B ^b   Leif, Robert C ^c   Price, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Newport Instruments   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrifugal cytology monolayers; Fetal cells in maternal blood; Genetic screening; Image segmentation and autofocus; Limit of rare event detection; Performance criteria

Indexed keywords

DYE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; ISOTHIOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FETUS; FETUS CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; ERYTHROBLASTS; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; FETUS; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; INDOLES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034175615     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(20000401)39:4<285::AID-CYTO6>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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