title: Automatic blood film preparation by rheologically controlled spinning.
abstract: During the past six years at the Biomedical Technical Center of Corning Glass Works, extensive studies on blood film preparation have resulted in a method and an instrument which offer the hematology laboratory better quality than that routinely attainable with the conventional wedge or cover-slip techniques. This spinning method provides the operator with a uniform blood "film" whose cell type distribution accurately reflects the distribution of the original liquid blood sample instead of a "smear." This film improves the accuracy of white blood cell differential counts performed manually; it also enhances the accuracy of recently developed machines which automatically locate and classify leukocytes.
mesh_terms: D001772:Blood Cell Count / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D008722:Methods; D012212:Rheology