Process for preparing a cell suspension from blood for discrimination of white blood cells and platelets from other blood particles

摘要

Procedures are disclosed for obtaining white blood cell counts and platelet counts by light scattering measurements in which anticoagulated blood samples are treated such that the morphology of the white cells (leukocytes) and platelets remain intact and permit the discrimination of platelets from white cells and of most classes of white cells from one another and their counting without the need for staining.