Re: Vantage vs. STAR on size discrimination

From: Ann Atzberger (Ann.Atzberger@EMBL-Heidelberg.de)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 06:27:21 EST


well I've worked with both and didn't see any difference: both had the same
optical components. Maybe he was using different laser power or something.
However, there appears to be a difference in FSC resolution between the BD
sorters and the FACSCAN. The Scan being better.

Ann

At 14:53 24.03.00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>To all:
>
>I have a user who claims that the FACSVantage is inferior to the
>FACSTAR in discriminating size of cells by FSC.  I would a priori see
>no reason why this should be true. Am I missing something? Have
>others seen this?
>
>
>Mark Shlomchik, MD, PhD
>Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine
>and Immunobiology
>Yale University School of Medicine
>
>203-688-2089
>203-688-2748 (fax)
>mark.shlomchik@yale.edu
>
>



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