Analytical performance of the Iris iQ200 automated urine microscopy analyzer

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 372, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 54-64

  Linko, Solveig ^a   Kouri, Timo T ^b   Toivonen, Eila ^a   Ranta, Paivi H ^a   Chapoulaud, Eric ^c   Lalla, Martti ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c Iris Diagnostics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Urine analysis; Urine microscopy; Urine particles

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CENTRIFUGATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MICROSCOPE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; URINALYSIS;

AUTOMATION; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; URINALYSIS;

EID: 33747821188     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2006.03.015     Document Type: Article

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