Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry
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Blog Post
Published
Aug. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
...user to compare the emission spectra between all of the markers in the panel. This complexity index ranges...choice for overlapping markers.
Compensation/reference control(s)
Compensation or “reference” controls are...detector for PE. In order to correct for this, compensation has to be applied to “subtract” this spillover...up a small portion of that spectra to use for compensation.
Figure 1: The emission spectra... discern one marker from another.
Instead of compensation, which relies on user adjustment, spectral flow...cytometry relies on “unmixing.” Unmixing uses a complex mathematical algorithm and single stained reference...series of histograms flipped onto its side and compressed into a heat map. BV421 peaks in V1, with secondary...