A model for continuous quality control incorporating sample-to-sample assessment of optical alignment, fluorescence sensitivity, and volumetric operation of flow cytometers

Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 201-210

  Lawrie, Denise ^a   Coetzee, Lindi M ^a   Glencross, Deborah K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aberrant BCR; BCR; Bead count rate; Continuous quality control; CQC; Fluidics; Forward scatter vs. fluorescence; Optical alignment; Pipetting error; PLG CD4; Sensitivity; Stability; Time vs. count; Time vs. fluorescence; Volumetric operation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PIPETTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77952600337     PISSN: 15524949     EISSN: 15524957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.b.20520     Document Type: Article

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