HemoCue® is built on a
tradition of innovation. When lab engineer Jan Lilja and computer
expert Sven-Erik Nilsson began developing a new method for hemoglobin
testing in 1974, they laid the foundation for the ground breaking
products HemoCue® introduces today. That foundation is the microcuvette, a
simple yet remarkable innovation. A pipette, a test tube and a
measuring vessel all in one, the microcuvette is being applied today in ways
Lilja and Nilsson would scarcely have thought possible.
Microcuvette Application
When the tip of a microcuvette touches a drop of analytical sample, it automatically draws the precise amount needed into a tiny mixing cavity. This cavity, dimensioned within thousands of a millimeter, contains dried reagent that dissolves when the liquid reaches it. The microcuvette is then placed in a photometric analyzer, which quickly returns an accurate measurement value.
Working with microcuvettes, dried reagents and photometry, it is possible to analyze not just hemoglobin, but almost any substance in a liquid medium. Today we produce microcuvettes for hemoglobin, glucose and urine albumin analysis, and even microcuvettes for specific applications within those categories. More microcuvettes are on the way, as we use our knowledge of advanced chemistry to develop microcuvette methods for other important analytes. In addition, we are taking microcuvette technology in all new directions.
Using the same type of microcuvette with dry reagent but using a new technology, a photo microscope, we now can count and recognize different types of cells and particles.
HemoCue® R&D Competence and Technology are Based on Many Years of Experience and Knowledge in Our Products
- Dry chemistry, to handle reagent in a wet phase, dispense it into a cuvette by different techniques and to dry it to stable form used for the tests
- Photometry, to develop small non-expensive analyzers, working with the same precision as big central laboratory instruments, being very robust, demanding minimal service, with long life and easy to use
- Plastic disposal microcuvettes and to make them producible in high volumes with no batch-to- batch variation
We demand that our analyzers should have a stable calibration and that no further calibration by the customers is required during the analyzer lifetime.No discernible batch-to-batch variation between the disposable microcuvettes.
Easy to use, simple sampling, preferably a drop of capillary blood or a drop of urine with no manual pipetting or pre-dilution.
The measured result with a HemoCue® system shall be with the same quality as if the result was measured in a central lab with regard to accuracy and precision All work is done according to ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and the U.S. regulation, QSR.
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