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A paper by IBEC’s group appears on the cover of Analytica Chimica Acta

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The journal cover shows a scheme of the new proposed methodology. Source: IBEC.
 22.01.2014

A paper by IBEC’s group appears on the cover of Analytica Chimica Acta

A paper by IBEC's Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems group and their collaborators is the featured article and appears on the cover of the latest issue of Analytica Chimica Acta. The study addresses the problem of the Limit of Detection (LOD) in analytical methods or measurement instruments.


The LOD is a limiting factor in the chemical detection systems, which are used in such wide-ranging applications such as disease diagnosis, environmental monitoring, poisons detection and security. In the paper Estimation of the Limit of Detection Using Information Theory Measures (doi:org/10.1016/j.aca.2013.10.030) – led by Santiago Marco from the IBEC– the researchers propose a new way of defining the LOD in which, unlike in existing probabilistic methods.

“The limit of detection is a fundamental concept in measurement science, The LOD given in the specifications of a system is very significant, as it may have legal implications or play a role in market regulations. We hope that regulatory bodies like the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the International Organization for Standarization might consider our definition in future revisions of the terminology”, explains Santiago Marco. .

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