Enhancement of Linearity and Response in Charged Aerosol Detection

Raw data collected by analytical detectors rarely correlates directly to the data points that are analyzed by the chromatographic software. Rather the data has already been manipulated in some way within the detector, typically post data collection. The most common examples are filtering and smoothing algorithms. The power transformation is simply another internal data manipulation aimed at improving the outputted data quality without changing the true separation. The use of power transformation can often improve the appearance of non-linear detectors. While these settings are typically not fully disclosed or described to the end user, they may be implemented to improve the appearance or linearity of the results.