Ann Lab Med.  2013 Sep;33(5):390-392. 10.3343/alm.2013.33.5.390.

Development and Evaluation of a Laboratory Information System-Based Auto-Dilution and Manual Dilution Algorithm for Alpha-Fetoprotein Assay

• Jeong TD
• Kim SY
• Lee W
• Chun S
• Min WK

• KMID: 1781351
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2013.33.5.390

Abstract

No abstract available.

MeSH Terms

*Algorithms
Automation
Clinical Laboratory Information Systems/*standards
Humans
Immunoassay/*methods
Indicator Dilution Techniques
alpha-Fetoproteins/*analysis
alpha-Fetoproteins

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Flow chart of the auto-dilution and manual dilution algorithm for the alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) assay. The upper linearity limit of AFP assay without dilution is 200 ng/mL for the ARCHITECT AFP reagent kit. The 5,000 ng/mL is an arbitrary value that is approximately 85% of the upper detection limit of the ARCHITECH i2000SR system for AFP assay.

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