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Raman spectroscopy of stored red blood cell concentrate within sealed transfusion blood bags by Vardaki, M Z, Atkins, C G, Schulze, H G, Devine, D V, Serrano, K, Blades, M W, Turner, R F B

“…The standard practice in blood banks worldwide involves storage of red blood cells (RBCs) in plastic bags until they are needed for transfusion. During…”
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Non-invasive spectroscopy of transfusable red blood cells stored inside sealed plastic blood-bags by Buckley, K, Atkins, C G, Chen, D, Schulze, H G, Devine, D V, Blades, M W, Turner, R F B

“…After being separated from (donated) whole blood, red blood cells are suspended in specially formulated additive solutions and stored (at 4 °C) in polyvinyl…”
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Accuracy and Precision of Manual Baseline Determination by Jirasek, A., Schulze, G., Yu, M. M. L., Blades, M. W., Turner, R. F. B.

“…Vibrational spectra often require baseline removal before further data analysis can be performed. Manual (i.e., user) baseline determination and removal is a…”
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Direct determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in solid matrices using laser desorption/laser photoionization ion trap mass spectrometry by Specht, A.A, Blades, M.W

“…The development and characterization of a new instrument for solid sampling which couples IR laser desorption followed by UV laser photo-ionization and…”
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Identification and Interpretation of Generalized Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy Features through Decomposition of the Perturbation Domain by Schulze, G., Jirasek, A., Blades, M. W., Turner, R. F. B.

“…Generalized two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy offers great scope for revealing the behavior of relationships between components of a system under…”
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Revealing System Dynamics through Decomposition of the Perturbation Domain in Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy by Jirasek, A., Schulze, G., Blades, M. W., Turner, R. F. B.

“…A technique is presented to simply and effectively decompose the perturbation domain in two-dimensional (2D) correlation maps calculated on a given set of…”
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Measurement of some small-molecule and peptide neurotransmitters in-vitro using a fiber-optic probe with pulsed ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopy by Schulze, H.G, Greek, L.S, Barbosa, C.J, Blades, M.W, Gorzalka, B.B, Turner, R.F.B

“…Many techniques have been developed to investigate the chemistry associated with brain activity. These techniques generally fall into two categories: fast…”
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Analysis of inorganic powders by time-wavelength resolved luminescence spectroscopy by Paski, Edgar F, Blades, M. W

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Investigation of a 2D two-point maximum entropy regularization method for signal-to-noise ratio enhancement: application to CT polymer gel dosimetry by Jirasek, A, Matthews, Q, Hilts, M, Schulze, G, Blades, M W, Turner, R F B

“…This study presents a new method of image signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) enhancement by utilizing a newly developed 2D two-point maximum entropy regularization…”
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Atmospheric pressure, radio frequency, parallel plate capacitively coupled plasma—excitation temperatures and analytical figures of merit by Rahman, M.M., Blades, M.W.

“…Electronic excitation ( T exc ) and rotational ( T rot ) temperatures were determined for a parallel plate capacitively coupled rf plasma operating at…”
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Pulse optimization for Raman spectroscopy with cross-correlation frequency resolved optical gating by Konorov, S O, Xu, X G, Turner, R F, Blades, M W, Hepburn, J W, Milner, V

“…We propose to employ the technique of femtosecond pulse shaping for improving the performance of the recently suggested method of complete characterization of…”
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Application of pattern recognition and factor analysis to inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectra by Wirsz, Douglas F, Blades, M. W

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Atmospheric pressure capacitively coupled plasma atomizer for atomic absorption spectrometry by Liang, D. C, Blades, M. W

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Spatially resolved temperature measurements in a furnace atomization plasma excitation spectrometry source by Le Blanc, C.W., Blades, M.W.

“…Spatially resolved atomic emission intensities from helium, and molecular emission intensities from OH and N + 2 have been measured in a furnace atomization…”
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Artificial neural network and classical least-squares methods for neurotransmitter mixture analysis by Schulze, H.Georg, Greek, L.Shane, Gorzalka, Boris B., Bree, Alan V., Blades, Michael W., Turner, Robin F.B.

“…Identification of individual components in biological mixtures can be a difficult problem regardiess of the analytical method employed. In this work, Raman…”
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Application of weakly ionized plasmas for materials sampling and analysis by Blades, M.W., Banks, P., Gill, C., Huang, D., LeBlanc, C., Liang, D.

“…The use of weakly ionized plasmas as spectroscopic sources for materials sampling and analysis is reviewed. Plasma sources currently used for this purpose…”
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Effects from easily ionized elements on silver analyte in atmospheric pressure parallel plate capacitively coupled plasma (PP-CCP) by Rahman, M.M., Blades, M.W.

“…The effect of easily ionized element (EIE) matrices on analyte emission, from a parallel plate capacitively coupled plasma (PP-CCP), has been studied. NaCl and…”
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A new broadly tunable (7.4–10.2 eV) laser based VUV light source and its first application to aerosol mass spectrometry by Hanna, S.J., Campuzano-Jost, P., Simpson, E.A., Robb, D.B., Burak, I., Blades, M.W., Hepburn, J.W., Bertram, A.K.

“…A laser based vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light source using resonance enhanced four wave difference mixing in xenon gas was developed for near threshold…”
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Electrodeposited polythiophene films provide reproducible samples for laser desorption ion trap mass spectrometry studies by Robb, Damon, Blades, M.W.

“…Electrodeposited polythiophene films can provide consistent laser desorption signal levels for over 20,000 laser shots on one position of a probe tip in an ion…”
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Investigation of Selected Baseline Removal Techniques as Candidates for Automated Implementation by Schulze, Georg, Jirasek, Andrew, Yu, Marcia M. L., Lim, Arnel, Turner, Robin F. B., Blades, Michael W.

“…Observed spectra normally contain spurious features along with those of interest and it is common practice to employ one of several available algorithms to…”
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