Performance Analysis of the Beckman Coulter GEN-S Automated Hematology Analyzer
Sean-Mi Song, Seong‐Kyu Lee, Qu-Ehn Park, Sun‐Hee Kim, Wonil Oh · The Korean Journal of Laboratory Medicine · 2002
Background : The complete blood cell count (CBC) and leukocyte differential counts are useful tools for making a diagnosis, treating and monitoring a disease. This study evaluated the performance of Beckman-Coulter's new model, the Coulter GEN-S system (Beckman Coulter Corporation, Miami, USA; GEN-S), and compared it with the Sysmex NE-8000 (Sysmex Corporation, Kobe, Japan; NE-8000) and Sysmex R-3000 (Sysmex Corporation, Kobe, Japan; R-3000). Methods : One hundred and four blood samples and 120 blood samples were randomly chosen for a comparison analysis from various in-patients and healthy persons, who visited Samsung medical center, respectively. The GEN-S system was evaluated according to the linearity and how well it compared with the NE-8000 in terms of the CBC, and the efficiency of the leukocyte suspect flags. Results : The GEN-S showed that the determination coefficients () of the WBC, RBC, platelet count and hemoglobin level were more than 0.94 (P 0.95 (P