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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Cytom. 2013 Jan;CHAPTER:Unit1.27. doi: 10.1002/0471142956.cy0127s63

Figure 1. Schematic comparison of a conventional and spectral detection in flow cytometry.

Figure 1

Conventional detection uses dichroic mirrors and bandpass filters to select colors of light for detection on PMTs. Spectral detection uses gratings or prisms to disperse light across a detector array.