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8.4 Running Samples .................................................................................................................................. 57
8.4.1 Manual Mode .............................................................................................................................................................. 57
8.4.2 Automatic Mode .......................................................................................................................................................... 59
8.5 Result Display ...................................................................................................................................... 69
8.6 Printing Reports ................................................................................................................................... 70
8.7 The Measurement Process.................................................................................................................... 70
9 Result Interpretation....................................................................................................................... 72
9.1 The Result Screen ................................................................................................................................. 72
9.2 Sample Identification Information ........................................................................................................ 72
9.3 Parameter Information ......................................................................................................................... 73
9.3.1 Scatter Diagrams and Histograms ............................................................................................................................... 74
9.3.2 Warnings ...................................................................................................................................................................... 76
10 Database Functions ..................................................................................................................... 82
10.1 Database Overview .............................................................................................................................. 82
10.2 Scrolling the Database View ................................................................................................................. 83
10.3 Sorting Database Information ............................................................................................................... 83
10.4 Manual Selection of Database Records ................................................................................................. 84
10.5 Automatic Selection of Database Records ............................................................................................. 84
10.6 Viewing Detailed Results ...................................................................................................................... 84
10.7 Statistics .............................................................................................................................................. 85
10.8 Managing Database Records ................................................................................................................. 85
10.8.1 Select By ...................................................................................................................................................................... 85
10.8.2 Importing ..................................................................................................................................................................... 86
10.8.3 Export .......................................................................................................................................................................... 87
10.8.4 Send to LIS ................................................................................................................................................................... 87
10.8.5 Save Tab File ................................................................................................................................................................ 87
10.8.6 Save Raw Data ............................................................................................................................................................. 88
10.8.7 Delete .......................................................................................................................................................................... 88
11 Calibration .................................................................................................................................. 90
11.1 Calibrating the ‘Abacus 5’ ..................................................................................................................... 90
11.1.1 View Calibrations ......................................................................................................................................................... 92
12 Quality Control ............................................................................................................................ 94
12.1 Set QC Reference ................................................................................................................................. 94
12.2 QC Measure ......................................................................................................................................... 96
12.3 View QC References ............................................................................................................................. 96
12.4 View QC Data ....................................................................................................................................... 96