Improvement of the Kleihauer-Betke Test by Automated Detection of Fetal Erythrocytes in Maternal Blood

Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-9

  Pelikan, Denise M V ^a   Mesker, Wilma E ^a   Scherjon, Sicco A ^a   Kanhai, Humphrey H H ^a   Tanke, Hans J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automated microscopy; Enumeration of rare events; Fetal cells; Fetomaternal hemorrhage; Image analysis; Kleihauer Betke test

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELUTION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KLEIHAUER BETKE TEST; LABORATORY TEST; MATERNAL BLOOD; MICROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FETUS BLOOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1542316631     PISSN: 15524949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.b.10017     Document Type: Article

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