Calibration-free method to determine the size and hemoglobin concentration of individual red blood cells from light scattering

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 31, 2000, Pages 5884-5889

  Sem’yanov, Konstantin A ^a   Tarasov, Pit A ^a   Soini, Juhani T ^b   Petrov, Alexander K ^a   Maltsev, Valeri P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL KINETICS AND COMBUSTION   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CELLS; HEMOGLOBIN; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

RED BLOOD CELLS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0037491688     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005884     Document Type: Article

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