Vol. 20:3 (Jul 2013) – Cal Lab Magazine

METROLOGY 101 Article Correction

September 12, 2013 Office

The Metrology 101 article from the Jul-Sep 2013 issue, “Testing Linearity on the Agilent E441xA Power Sensors,” has been updated online. The upper and lower readings are incorrect in the printed version. An Excel spreadsheet […]

Gender-Specific Effects on Tympanic Temperature of a Cohort Sample of 15 to 16 Year Old High School Students

August 15, 2013 Office

Written and presented by Rebecca Choi, Jessica Chung, and Justin Jinwon Lee of Fairmont Preparatory Academy in Anaheim, California — awarded Best High-School Student Paper at the 2013 Measurement Science Conference in Anaheim. Our experiment consisted […]

Small Current Measurements for a New Standard in Radionuclide Metrology

August 15, 2013 Office

by Helko van den Brom, Gert Rietveld, and Jan Paepen The accurate measurement of small electrical currents is essential for the measurement of ionizing radiation as generated by radionuclides. VSL has been involved in the […]

The Metrology of Counting Protein Particles

August 15, 2013 Office

by Dean C. Ripple, Michael J. Carrier, Richard E. Cavicchi, Christopher B. Montgomery, and Zhishang Hu A common degradation pathway for protein-based drugs is the growth of protein aggregates or particles. Counting and characterization of […]

Metrology 101: Testing Linearity on Agilent E441xA Power Sensors

August 15, 2013 Office

by Michael Schwartz Today’s new high dynamic range power sensors are not built the same as the older generations of sensors. Older generations of power sensors only had a correction table for their frequency response. […]