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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 32, 598-602, Copyright © 1986 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry
MF Merrick and HL Pardue
We discuss the relative merits of absorption and first- and second- derivative spectra for the simultaneous quantification of bilirubin and hemoglobin, and evaluate single-, two-, and multiwavelength methods. Although both species can be quantified from single- or two-wavelength absorption data, lipids or other absorbing or light-scattering components introduce systematic errors that can be substantially decreased by using first- or second-derivative spectra. Multi- wavelength data-processing methods with derivative spectra permit quantification of components with overlapping spectra and decrease the random error usually associated with derivative methods. A typical least-squares equation for quantifying bilirubin in the presence of hemoglobin and bovine serum albumin from multi-wavelength second- derivative data is y(computed) = 0.999x(prepared) + 0.00 mg/L.
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