Label-Free Spectroscopic Identification of Fetal Nucleated Red Blood Cells from Maternal Blood

Authors :: Vladimir Turzhitsky
Eugene B. Hanlon
Irving Itzkan
Le Qiu
Edward Vitkin
Lianyu Guo
Lev T. Perelman
Kee-Hak Lim
Source :: Biomedical Optics and 3-D Imaging.
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: OSA, 2012.
Abstract: We present a spectroscopic microscopy system for measuring transmission and reflectance from erythrocytes. Spectroscopic markers are used to distinguish between fetal and adult cells for the application of genetic screening from maternal blood.

Subjects :: Fetus
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Chemistry
medicine
Nucleated Red Blood Cell
Maternal blood
Reflectivity
Molecular biology
Label free

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