Table 2. LoB, LoD and LoQ of the five LED based instruments measured on BSA-TSA buffer based TnI samples with TnI assay compared to the current state-of-the art flash lamp based instrument.

	BSA-TSA buffer based samplesa					Plasma or WB samples
Instrument	1	2	3	4	5	Radiometer AQT90 FLEX [24]
LoB, ng/L	0.8	0.9	1.1	0.8	1.0	4.3
LoD, ng/L	1.5	1.9	2.1	1.9	2.0	9.5 (plasma)
LoQ (CV 20%), ng/L	1.9	2.5	3.3	2.7	2.4	18 (whole blood) 16 (plasma)
LoQ (CV 10%), ng/L	5.8	6.9	8.4	7.3	6.8	24 (whole blood) 24 (plasma)
Averaged background value ${\mu }_B$, counts	204	214	281	195	149
Background standard deviation${\sigma }_B$, counts	19	18	20	15	14

^aLOB determined on AB samples