The advanced medical microscopy used at Bio Care Hospital, whose research and development involved IBC principals over many years, is a state-of-the-art system, including digitalization and a video monitor, which allows the clinician to gather a tremendous amount of information in a short period of time. Sometimes erroneously called dark field microscopy-a reference to one of its modes-the system uses drops of capillary blood expressed from the fingertip, for the utilization of the clot-retraction (CRT) and live-blood tests (LCA), although the system is well fitted for medical microscopy in general.

The dark field mode allows many elements of blood not clearly visible in the bright field mode to come into clear view. At better than 15,000 magnification, the practitioner may see numerous factors of living, circulating blood including red blood cells, white cells, platelets, yeast forms, chylomicrons, cholesterol crystals, bacteria, mycoplasma and other structures.

Live Cell Analysis hence allows the physician to see, in color and at extremely high optical magnification, a patient's response to diet, medications and pathogens. Such evaluations allow for weekly and even daily patient monitoring and arguably diagnosis.

It’s predecessor: the "clot retraction" test, which has had various names, is utilized at lower magnification to examine the clotting factors in dried blood.

It has been determined that an essential element in this test is the serum's response to "free radicals," which are molecular breakdown products common in the processes of oxidation and inflammation. These compounds which are normally generated by metabolic activity of the body can increase substantially in a number of conditions ranging from inflammation to cancer.