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Method for the evaluation of agglutination reactions

US5051370A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

Detlef Schulze · Frankfurt am Main, DE
Rudolf Schmidtberger · Marburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 11, 1990
Grant date	Sep 24, 1991
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 11, 2010

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S436/805
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In the method for the evaluation of agglutination reactions between a reagent and a biological fluid to be examined, the reagent and the biological fluid are intimately mixed by agitation with a tumbling motion. The mixture is then placed in the ray path of an optical measuring system and, while maintaining the tumbling motion and superimposing a translational motion at right angles to the optical axis of the measuring system, an image of the agglutinates formed in the mixture is produced on a focusing screen, and the image is evaluated with an evaluation unit.

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