Apparatus for obtaining an image of a blood cell and method for obtaining an image of a blood cell
First Claim
1. An apparatus for obtaining images of a blood cells, comprising:
- an image obtainer for obtaining images of predetermined blood cells in a blood sample smeared on a sample holder;
an analysis result obtainer for obtaining an analysis result of the blood sample, wherein the analysis result has been obtained by a blood analyzer which has analyzed blood cells in the blood sample; and
a controller for controlling the image obtainer such that the image obtainer obtains the images under a first imaging condition when the obtained analysis result does not include abnormal cell information that indicates a presence of an anomalous nucleated blood cell, and obtains the images under a second imaging condition to be different from the first imaging condition when the obtained analysis result includes the abnormal cell information.
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Abstract
A apparatus for obtaining an image of a blood cell is described, a representative one of which includes image obtainer for obtaining an image of a predetermined blood cell in a blood sample smeared on a sample holder; an analysis result obtainer for obtaining an analysis result of the blood sample; and a controller for controlling the image obtainer such that the image obtainer obtains the image under a first imaging condition when the analysis result does not indicate a presence of a predetermined anomalous cell, and obtains the image under a second imaging condition to be different from the first imaging condition when the analysis result indicates the presence of the predetermined anomalous cell.
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20 Claims
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1. An apparatus for obtaining images of a blood cells, comprising:
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an image obtainer for obtaining images of predetermined blood cells in a blood sample smeared on a sample holder; an analysis result obtainer for obtaining an analysis result of the blood sample, wherein the analysis result has been obtained by a blood analyzer which has analyzed blood cells in the blood sample; and a controller for controlling the image obtainer such that the image obtainer obtains the images under a first imaging condition when the obtained analysis result does not include abnormal cell information that indicates a presence of an anomalous nucleated blood cell, and obtains the images under a second imaging condition to be different from the first imaging condition when the obtained analysis result includes the abnormal cell information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An apparatus for obtaining images of blood cells, comprising:
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an image obtainer for obtaining images of predetermined blood cells in a blood sample smeared on a sample holder; an analysis result obtainer for obtaining an analysis result of the blood sample, wherein the analysis result has been obtained by a blood analyzer which has analyzed blood cells in the blood sample; and a controller for controlling the image obtainer such that the image obtainer obtains the images under a first imaging condition when the obtained analysis result does not include abnormal cell information that indicates a presence of aggregated platelets, and obtains the images under a second imaging condition to be different from the first imaging condition when the obtained analysis result includes the abnormal cell information, wherein the first imaging condition relates to a first position on the sample holder for obtaining the images, the second imaging condition relates to a second position on the sample holder for obtaining the images; and wherein the second position has higher probability of presence of the aggregated platelets than the first position. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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16. A method for obtaining images of blood cells comprising:
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obtaining a blood analysis result of a blood sample, wherein the analysis result has been obtained by a blood analyzer which has analyzed blood cells in the blood sample; and obtaining images of a predetermined blood cells in a blood sample smeared on a sample holder under a first imaging condition or a second imaging condition to be different from the first imaging condition; wherein the images are obtained under the first imaging condition when the obtained analysis result does not include abnormal cell information that indicates a presence of an anomalous nucleated blood cell, and obtained under the second imaging condition when the obtained analysis result includes the abnormal cell information.
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17. An apparatus for obtaining images of blood cells comprising:
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an image obtainer for obtaining images of predetermined blood cells in a blood sample smeared on a sample holder; an analysis result obtainer for obtaining a blood analysis result of the blood sample, wherein the analysis result has been obtained by a blood analyzer which has analyzed blood cells in the blood sample; and a controller for controlling the image obtainer such that the image obtainer obtains a first number of the images under a first imaging condition when a number of the predetermined blood cells included in the analysis result is larger than a predetermined value, and obtains a second number of the images under a second imaging condition, wherein the second number is smaller than the first number, when the number of the predetermined blood cells is smaller than the predetermined value. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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19. An apparatus for obtaining images of blood cells comprising:
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an image obtainer for obtaining a images of predetermined blood cells in a blood sample smeared on a sample holder; an analysis result obtainer for obtaining a blood analysis result of the blood sample, wherein the analysis result includes a number of red blood cells and has been obtained by a blood analyzer which has analyzed blood cells in the blood sample; and a controller for controlling the image obtainer such that the image obtainer obtains images of the predetermined blood cells under a first imaging condition when the number of the red blood cells included in the analysis result is larger than a predetermined value and the image obtainer does not obtain images of the predetermined blood cells under a second imaging condition when the number of the red blood cells is not larger than the predetermined value. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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