Inventors:
Jason B. Shear - Palo Alto CA
Rajeev Dadoo - Cambridge MA
Harvey A. Fishman - Stanford CA
Neil Shafer - Palo Alto CA
Richard N. Zare - Stanford CA
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University - Palo Alto CA
International Classification:
G01N 2100, G01N 2164, G01N 3508, C12Q 168
Abstract:
In many separation techniques, such as field flow fractionation, liquid chromatography and electro-phoresis, chemical species form bands that migrate at different velocities. If the data-digitization rate and excitation intensity are both set to be optimal for the fastest migrating band, to compensate for different band velocities, both the data-digitization rate and the excitation intensity are decreased as a function of time by a factor equal to the migration time of the fastest migrating band to the separation time.