Time of flight on FACScan

From: Justin Fishbaugh (justin-fishbaugh@uiowa.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 21 1999 - 15:38:14 EST


Greetings,

We are attempting to use time of flight (pulse width) on a FACScan to
accurately measure cell size on different cell lines.  We are trying to
avoid the sticky business of using forward scatter with bead standards to
establish a curve.  That method has its own set of problems.  As FACScan
users are aware, pulse width is only available on the three fluorescent
channels.  We initially tried using FDA to get a decent fluorescent signal
for the pulse processor to derive the width signal.  Our results did not
correlate with known cell sizes.  The trends were all wrong.  Has anyone
else successfully used the time of flight on a FACScan for such
measurements?  Thanks for your input.

  
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| Justin Fishbaugh                             | 
| University of Iowa                           |
| Flow Cytometry Facility                      |
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| Iowa City, IA  52242                         |
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| justin-fishbaugh@uiowa.edu                   |
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