Fig. 4

Reference interval and data distributions for r-PLTs of 193 healthy dogs measured with the Sysmex XT-2000iV and three different gating methods. Blue bars show the observed data distribution, the purple curve represents Gaussian fit. The blue vertical lines are consistent with the lower and upper limits of the reference interval; the dotted lines indicate the 90 % confidence interval. Abbreviations: r-PLT “Gelain-gate”: gate based on the publication of Gelain et al.; r-PLT “Pankraz-gate”: gate based on the publication of Pankraz et al., r-PLT “Oellers-gate”: optimized gate for measurement of r-PLTs