Programs for Data Processing in Radioimmunoassay Using the HP-41C Programmable Calculator. Off-Line Analysis of Counting Data from Standards and Unknowns

摘要

The programs described provide for analysis, with the Hewlett Packard HP-41C calculator, of counting data collected in radioimmunoassays or other related in-vitro assays. The immediate reason for their development was to assist laboratories having limited financial resources and serious problems of quality control. The programs are structured both for ''off-line'' use, with manual entry of counting data into the calculator through the keyboard, and, in a slightly altered version, for ''on-line'' use, with automatic data entry from an automatic well scintillation counter originally designed at the IAEA. Only the off-line variant of the programs is described. The programs determine from appropriate counting data the concentration of analyte in unknown specimens, and provide supplementary information about the reliability of these results and the consistency of current and past assay performance. (Atomindex citation 12:642742)