Crossover Study of Three Methods for Low-Level White Blood Cell Counting on Two Types of Flow Cytometer

Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-45

  Dijkstra Tiekstra, M J ^a   Schrijver, J G ^a   Van Der Meer, P F ^a   Laport, R F ^a   Gratama, J W ^b   Levering, W H B M ^a   Van Delden, C J ^a   De Wildt Eggen, J ^a  

^a CENTRAL LABORATORY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Flow cytometer; Intra assay variation; Linearity; Low level white blood cell counting; Precision

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE; VOLUMETRY; CELL SEPARATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CELL SEPARATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1542316627     PISSN: 15524949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.b.10015     Document Type: Article

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