Among the techniques of detection used in clinical chemistry, optical and electrochemical methods are especially attractive. However, except for glass electrodes for pH measurement, potentiometric electrochemical sensors (ionselective electrodes) gained general acceptance in clinical analyzers and in clinical instrumentation, respectively, only around 1970 (for reviews see 1-5). Here we report ...

The measurement process uncertainty is propagated through the use of a calibration curve. The magnitude and direction of this uncertainty depends on the choice of the controllable variable in producing the calibration curve; in other words, the design of the calibration experiment. In this paper this design is discussed in the context of Scheffe's approach to the uncertainties of a calibration ...

Calibration in atomic-absorption spectrometry is achieved by means of a concentrationgradient chamber using a single concentrated standard solution. Calibration is rapid and extends over the entire working concentration range of the analyte, irrespective of the shape of the conventionally obtained calibration curve. No curve-fitting approximations are involved. With well-designed apparatus, dev...

The X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and the MA.BM.006 reference spectrophotometric methods were used to determine the content of SiO2 (%) in bauxites from different deposits. The treatment of samples prior to the analysis involved the following steps: annealing, melting using the borax method,  and the formation of beads. Certified reference bauxite samples were used for the cali...

ONE of the main problems in the use of continuously recorded dye dilution curves has been the calibration of the obtained curves. Methods involving measurements from the "tail" of the dilution curve are often inaccurate because in this portion of the curve the concentration of dye is low. Other methods of calibration involve determinations from a sample of blood withdrawn before or after the di...

To develop a calibration curve for induction of dicentric chromosomes by radiation, we have used a 60Co gamma-ray source with dose rate of 12.5 mGy/s. Whole blood from 15 healthy donors was collected. Whole blood from each donor was divided equally into 8 parts for exposing to supposedly physical doses 0, 0.30, 0.50, 1.00, 1.50, 2.00, 3.00 and 4.00 Gy for a independent calibration curve. Whole ...