摘要 |
An automated analyzer has a sample pretreatment disk that is operable without decreasing the processing capability of the automated analyzer during sample pretreatments such as sample dispensing and diluent dispensing. The automated analyzer can be applied to any clinical assay involving biological sample analyses. The sample pretreatment disk has a sample pretreatment cycle and a sample re-sampling cycle. In sample pretreatment cycle, the pretreatment disk rotates so that pretreatment operations are performed on some pretreatment vessels placed on the pretreatment disk. In the re-sampling cycle, the pretreatment disk rotates so that a pretreated sample is transferred from a pretreatment vessel on the pretreatment disk into a reaction vessel on a reaction disk, which disk is part of the analysis section of the automated analyzer. Controlling the cycles independently of each other allows re-sampling operations to be performed without a series of pretreatment operations being interrupted. |