RE: Concentration Calibration Curves

Thomas Delohery (t-delohery@ski.mskcc.org)
Tue, 11 Apr 1995 11:09:00 +0530

Good morning, I hope everyone is learning something here.

I response to Eric Martz comments:
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>Live rate displayed Rate saved to file Events lost
>on monitor to disk file
>3,200/sec 294 91%
>420/sec 357 15%
>
>Since the rate saved is actually slower at the higher rate, there is
>evidently a penalty for higher rates above and beyond the dead time
>per recorded event. I think everyone should do the kind of check you
>did. The conclusion (for our setup) is that concentrations of cells
>giving rates above 500/sec are simply wasting cells!
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According to a poster by Langlois and van den Engh presented at ISAC XVI,
March 1993: Both BD and MoFlo maximum data storage for 3-parameter list
mode was approx. 1000 events/sec.. A max.of 4000 events/sec. was observed
for "two-parameter histograms".

This should not be confused with the time required in signal processing
for sort-decision making - which is much faster. This is why I reported
trigger rates.

tom d.

"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience
or convictions"
Dag Hammarskjold

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