Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
...Importantly, conventional flow cytometry uses one detector to detect one fluorophore and therefore one cellular...fluorophores can “spill over” into detectors that are not the primary detector for that fluorophore. For example...single (primary) detector to identify a fluorophore, spectral flow cytometers use all detectors for all fluorophores...panels: five laser spectral flow machines have 64 detectors, allowing for the use of up to 64 markers in a...emitted by a fluorophore is guided to a single detector using a series of mirrors and filters. Importantly... FITC signal is spilling over into the primary detector for PE. In order to correct for this, compensation...the fluorescent molecules can be quite broad, detectors will usually only pick up a small portion of that...