Advantages of Automated Reticulocyte Analysis
 
 
- Amenable to labor efficiencies or robotics
- faster analysis per sample
- allows for batch analysis or random access
 
- Improved precision of retic counting
- superior to visual microscopic counts
- greater objectivity
 
- New parameters of erythropoiesis
- Immature Reticulocyte Fraction (IRF)
- Reticulocyte hemoglobin content