Patent ID: 9541552
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G01N,Y02A

Claim:
1. A blood analyzing device comprising: a holder arranged to carry a container having a cuvette comprising a hemolyzed blood sample; a light source operable to generate input light of at least one wavelength at which a hemoglobin (Hb) species has absorbance and arranged to direct said input light into said hemolyzed blood sample; a detector system arranged to detect output light from said hemolyzed blood sample and operable to generate, based on said output light, i) a Hb signal representative of an amount of said Hb species in said hemolyzed blood sample, and ii) a parasite signal representative of an amount of malaria parasites in said hemolyzed blood sample; a processor configured to process said Hb signal to generate a red blood cell value representative of a concentration of red blood cells in said blood sample prior to hemolysis and configured to generate, based on said parasite signal and said red blood cell value, a parasitemia value representative of a percentage of said red blood cells in said blood sample that are infected by a respective malaria parasite; and a display operable to display said parasitemia value.