Analytical systems, advances

X. Fan (ed.), Advanced Photonic Structures for Biological and Chemical Detection, Integrated Analytical Systems,... 

Analytes in this category are not necessarily related to the carbon cycle, but are of interest to chemical oceanographers. Improvement in technologies to measure these analytes could advance the ability of chemical oceanographers to study how Earth systems function. 

Figure 3.27 Internal analyser sample flow system. Reprinted with kind permission of ABB Analytical and Advanced Solutions.

Professor Peter Keay, Director, Centre for Advanced Micro Analytic Systems (CAMAS), University of Luton ... 

A major advance in the automation of specimen identification in the clinical laboratory has been the incorporation of bar coding technology into analytical systems.In practice, a bar coded label (often generated by the laboratory information system and bearing the specimen accession number) is placed onto the specimen container and is subsequently read by one or more bar code readers that have been strategically placed at key positions in the analytical train. The resultant identifying and ancillary information is then transferred to and processed by the system software. 

Significant progress has been made in integrating the individual steps of the analytical process discussed in the previous section into analytical systems. Consequently, advanced analytical systems are now available from multiple vendors for automated chemistry, hematology,unmunoassay, ... 

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