CELL PHONE ANALYZER BY BKFORENSICS MANUAL

The massive volume of cell-phone users (~ 6 billion in 2012 16), the advanced status of the embedded digital components in cell-phones (e.g., image sensors, graphics processing units etc.) as well as the wide-spread connectivity of the existing wireless telecommunication infrastructure make the cell-phone a ubiquitous platform to develop various diagnostics platforms especially for point-of-care and telemedicine applications. Therefore, a cost-effective, compact and accurate automated blood analyzer that can be used at the point-of-care is highly desirable.Ĭell-phone based microscopy and diagnostics have been emerging fields in recent years 3– 15.

Automated counting using e.g., a flow cytometer is highly accurate but requires bulky and expensive instruments, making them less effective for point-of-care diagnostics, especially in resource limited settings.

CELL PHONE ANALYZER BY BKFORENSICS MANUAL

Manual counting is tedious and subject to errors and bias.

Typically a blood test requires at least a millilitre of blood sample and the cells can be manually counted using a hemocytometer with light microscopy or automatically counted using a hematology analyzer or a flow cytometer in a centralized laboratory 2. It can provide valuable information for evaluating the overall health condition as well as helping diagnosis of various diseases 1, such as anemia and infections. Blood analysis, including density measurements of white blood cells (WBCs), red blood cells (RBCs), and hemoglobin, is one of the most ordered clinical tests.

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