Biosensors (Jan 2024)

Reagentless Vis-NIR Spectroscopy Point-of-Care for Feline Total White Blood Cell Counts

  • Teresa Guerra Barroso,
  • Carla Queirós,
  • Filipe Monteiro-Silva,
  • Filipe Santos,
  • António Hugo Gregório,
  • Rui Costa Martins

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/bios14010053
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
p. 53

Abstract

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Spectral point-of-care technology is reagentless with minimal sampling (9 cell/L), and 85.11% for cases with extreme high white blood cell counts. At the covariance mode level, white blood cells are quantified using orthogonal information on red blood cells, maximizing sensitivity and specificity towards white blood cells, and avoiding the use of non-specific natural correlations present in the dataset; thus, the specifity of white blood cells spectral information is increased. The presented research is a step towards high-specificity, reagentless, miniaturized spectral point-of-care hematology technology for Veterinary Medicine.

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