The instrument stains, loads, images and evaluates the smear by itself. Instead of an hour at the microscope you have a finished report in six to ten minutes.
New: the blood panel now covers exotic species too
Updates download automatically over the cloud; the instrument only needs to be switched on and connected. Once downloaded, a single restart completes the installation. Here is what the latest one brought:
Beyond dogs and cats the panel now handles rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas and hamsters, birds such as parrots, pigeons, chickens and ducks, and reptiles including lizards, tortoises and snakes. No new reagents are needed, the existing ones suffice.
The blood report now also states agglutinated platelets (APLT) and attaches the cell morphology images captured during the run.
Reworked workflow timing has cut roughly two minutes off a single run, for blood, urine and faeces alike.
Each run can be given its own sample identifier, numeric or alphabetic, which makes pairing the report with the patient easier.
With exotic species the anticoagulant matters: EDTA-K₂ for mammals and birds, lithium heparin for reptiles. The wrong choice directly affects the result. All other testing conditions stay the same.
The InMorph is an automated morphology station. It handles blood smears, faecal morphology and urine sediment, and issues a separate detailed report with reference ranges for each sample type.
The difference from a haematology analyser lies in what is actually assessed. An analyser counts the cells; the InMorph looks at them. It distinguishes band, segmented and hypersegmented neutrophils, and finds spherocytes, nucleated red cells and agglutination — precisely the findings that otherwise send a smear to the laboratory or put someone behind a microscope.
With an instrument that looks at the cells, the recognition model can keep improving. New capabilities therefore do not come from buying more hardware but from a cloud update. The latest one added a blood panel for small mammals, birds and reptiles, introduced agglutinated platelets and shortened the run — with no change to the instrument and no new reagents. An instrument bought today will do more in a year than it does now.
One sample means one reagent card and one complete report. The cost of a run is therefore a single figure you know in advance — there is no separate charge for the differential or for individual parameters. Whether it is 46 parameters from blood or 21 from urine sediment, one card from the pack is used.
Five steps that run without operator intervention.
Each sample type has its own set of parameters and its own reagent kit. Alongside dogs and cats, the blood panel also covers small mammals, birds and reptiles.
The sample contains reports from all three sample types. Alongside the table of measured values and reference ranges, each includes the smear overview map, a gallery of the recognised cells with concentration and share for every type, WBC, RBC and PLT histograms, and a note on the clinical significance of the deviations.
When the room is below 16 °C, the instrument prompts for warming before a blood run. The reagent card goes on the heating plate, the sample is applied and a three-minute countdown starts on the display. Faeces and urine need no warming.
The three minutes matter. A shorter incubation degrades the result; longer than five minutes overstains the leukocytes, which distorts the differential and produces a falsely raised platelet count.
The reagents are stored at 4 to 32 °C and keep for 24 months. No fridge is needed.
| Capacity | 1 test at a time |
|---|---|
| Sample type | Blood, urine, faeces |
| Run time | 6 to 10 minutes |
| Display | 10.1" colour touchscreen |
| Dimensions | 260 × 331 × 355 mm |
| Weight | 11.6 kg |
| Reagent storage | 4 to 32 °C |
| Reagent shelf life | 24 months |
We bring the instrument to you, set it up, train you on it and run an agreed number of samples on the spot. If you need to test for longer, we can arrange a loan of up to a week. Just agree a date with us.
