Calibration centering

The Bureau National de Metrologie (BNM) has designated The Laboratoire de Messure des Rayonnements lonisants (LMRI) as Approved Calibration Center . It is a laboratory of the Commisariat a I Energie Atomique (CEA) implanted in the Nuclear Research Center of Saclay. It belongs to the Departement des Applications et de la Metrologie des Rayonnements lonisants (DAMRI) whose laboratories are specialised in radioactivity for research and industrial applications of radionuclides. 

FIGURE 49.32 Intersections of the instantaneous helical angles with the metacarpal sagittal plane. They are relative to one subject tested twice in different days. The origin of the graph is coincident with the calibrated center of the metacarpal head. The arrow indicates the direction of flexion. (From Fioretti S. 1994. In F. Schuind et al. (Eds.). Advances in the Biomechanics of the Hand and Wrist, pp. 363-375, New York, Plenum Press. With permission.)... 

The previous section alludes to the most common problems in quantitative Raman spectroscopic calibrations Most models require that all components in a system to be known and modeled in the calibration data to accurately predict any one component. Inverse calibration techniques such as inverse multiple linear regression (inverse MLR), principal component regression (PCR) and partial least squares (PLS also known as principal latent structures) avoid this problem by forcing the calibration steps to utilize only the spectral features which are either changing (PCR) or directly correlated to the property of interest (PLS). More so, not all components in a sample need to be known to perform an inverse calibration. The basic form of an inverse calibration centers around an equation of the form... 

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Over the last seventeen year s the Analytical center at our Institute amassed the actual material on the application of XRF method to the quantitative determination of some major (Mg, Al, P, S, Cl, K, Ti, Mn, Fe) and trace (V, Cr, Co, Ni, Zn, Rb, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ba, La, Ce, Pb, Th, U) element contents [1, 2]. This paper presents the specific features of developed techniques for the determination of 25 element contents in different types of rocks using new Biaiker Pioneer automated spectrometer connected to Intel Pentium IV. The special features of X-ray fluorescence analysis application to the determination of analyzed elements in various types of rocks are presented. The softwai e of this new X-ray spectrometer allows to choose optimal calibration equations and the coefficients for accounting for line overlaps by Equant program and to make a mathematic processing of the calibration ai ray of CRMs measured by the Loader program. 

In Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES), a gaseous, solid (as fine particles), or liquid (as an aerosol) sample is directed into the center of a gaseous plasma. The sample is vaporized, atomized, and partially ionized in the plasma. Atoms and ions are excited and emit light at characteristic wavelengths in the ultraviolet or visible region of the spectrum. The emission line intensities are proportional to the concentration of each element in the sample. A grating spectrometer is used for either simultaneous or sequential multielement analysis. The concentration of each element is determined from measured intensities via calibration with standards. 

Figure 2.11. For various combinations of n (5 10 resp. 20) and m (1, 2, resp. 3) the estimated CI(X) is plotted versus absorbance y. The left figure shows the absolute values t ixl, while the right figure depicts the relative ones, namely 100 t Sx/X in %, It is obvious that it would be inopportune to operate in the region below about 90% of nominal (in this particular case below y = 0.36 the absolute error for y = 0.36 is smaller than that for y = 0.6, but the inverse is true for the relative error, see arrows). There are three remedies increase n ox m (and costs), or reduce the calibration concentrations to shift the center of mass (x ean, ymean) below 100/0.42. At y = 0.6 and m - 1 (no replicates ) one finds X = 141.4 with a Cl of 3.39 (+2.4%, circle).

This example assumes that RIA was chosen. The principle behind RIA is the competition between the analyte A and a radioactively tagged control C (e.g., a /-marked ester of the species in question) for the binding site of an antibody specifically induced and harvested for this purpose. The calibration function takes on the shape of a logistic curve that extends over about three orders of magnitude. (Cf. Fig. 4.38a.) The limit of detection is near the B/Bo = 1 point (arrow ) in the upper left corner, where the antibody s binding sites are fully sequestered by C the nearly linear center portion is preferrably used for quantitation. 

In Fig. 4.39, results for spiked placebo and for the verum tablets are given for compound A (bold lines) and B all horizontal bars should be at 100%, and the vertical lines should be centered at the same height. The gray trendlines, particularly for the LO- and Hl-range A-values indicate a systematic difference in response between tbe calibration solutions and the spiked placebo tablets (extraction efficiency, interference, etc.). For same ranges, the verum-tablets assays either underestimate the content of A by 4—5%, or A is underdosed. For compound A the repeatability figures are as follows (%-of-nom-inal, see file Fig4 39.dat), see Table 4.36. 

The application of principal components regression (PCR) to multivariate calibration introduces a new element, viz. data compression through the construction of a small set of new orthogonal components or factors. Henceforth, we will mainly use the term factor rather than component in order to avoid confusion with the chemical components of a mixture. The factors play an intermediary role as regressors in the calibration process. In PCR the factors are obtained as the principal components (PCs) from a principal component analysis (PC A) of the predictor data, i.e. the calibration spectra S (nxp). In Chapters 17 and 31 we saw that any data matrix can be decomposed ( factored ) into a product of (object) score vectors T(nxr) and (variable) loadings P(pxr). The number of columns in T and P is equal to the rank r of the matrix S, usually the smaller of n or p. It is customary and advisable to do this factoring on the data after columncentering. This allows one to write the mean-centered spectra Sq as ... 

There are two points of view to take into account when setting up a trmning set for developing a predictive multivariate calibration model. One viewpoint is that the calibration set should be representative for the population for which future predictions are to be made. This will generally lead to a distribution of objects in experimental space that has a higher density towards the center, tailing out to the boundaries. Another consideration is that it is better to spread the samples more or... 

Since the actual motion of the Mossbauer drive, as for any frequency transmission system, can show phase shifts relative to the reference signal, the ideal folding point (FP) of the raw data in terms of channel numbers may be displaced from the center at channel number (N — l)/2 (= 255.5 in the example seen earlier). The folding routine must take this into account. Phase shift and FP depend on the settings of the feedback loop in the drive control unit. Therefore, any change of the spectrometer velocity tuning requires the recording of a new calibration spectrum. 

Fig. 3.4 Calibration spectrum of metallic iron and magnetic hyperfine splitting of the nuclear levels. The values of the hyperfine splitting in a-iron are = 1.677 mm >2 = 6.167mms >3 = 10.657 mm s. The center of the calibration spectrum is defined as velocity zero left). The isomer shift of a specific sample with respect to metallic iron is indicated as 5 (right)...

Interestingly, the correct polarity of the Mossbauer drive can be checked by using the isomer shift of oc-iron with respect to the materials in Table 3.1. After folding of the raw data, the center of the calibration spectrum without further correction must be at —0.12 mm s relative to the Co/Rh source material. 

Instead of the addition of the 1-vector the calibration data may be centered (y — y and x, —3c, respectively). Even if the spectra of the pure species cannot be measured directly then the A-matrix can be estimated indirectly from the spectra provided that all components of the analytical system are known ... 

In the case of optical observation of FCCs, film samples were put in a hot stage (Linkam, LK-600). Temperature was calibrated using standard materials. In and Sn Nitrogen gas was used at the rate of 50 ml/min. The number of isolated crystals near the center of the sample was counted. 

Most of our discussion so far has centered on the use of the two-point-difference method of computing an approximation to the true derivative, but since we have already brought up the Savitzky-Golay method, it is appropriate here to consider both ways of computing derivatives, when considering how they behave when used for quantitative calibration purposes. 

The Mahalanobis Distance statistic provides a useful indication of the first type of extrapolation. For the calibration set, one sample will have a maximum Mahalanobis Distance, Z) ax. This is the most extreme sample in the calibration set, in that, it is the farthest from the center of the space defined by the spectral variables. If the Mahalanobis Distance for an unknown sample is greater than ZTax, then the estimate for the sample clearly represents an extrapolation of the model. Provided that outliers have been eliminated during the calibration, the distribution of Mahalanobis Distances should be representative of the calibration model, and ZEax can be used as an indication of extrapolation. 

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