Editing Flow cytometry (section)

===Name of the technology===
The original name of the fluorescence-based flow cytometry technology was "pulse cytophotometry" ([[German language|German]]: ''Impulszytophotometrie''), based on the first patent application on fluorescence-based flow cytometry. At the 5th American Engineering Foundation Conference on Automated Cytology in Pensacola (Florida) in 1976 – eight years after the introduction of the first fluorescence-based flow cytometer (1968) – it was agreed to commonly use the name "flow cytometry", a term that quickly became popular.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Sack U, Tárnok A, Rothe G |title=Zelluläre Diagnostik | trans-title = Cellular Diagnostics | language = German |publisher=Karger Publishers | date = 2006 | isbn = 978-3-318-01217-0 }}</ref>