Linear dynamic range

Legal chain of custody protocols: Procedures employed to record the possession

of samples from the time of sampling through the retention time specified by the
client or program. These procedures are performed at the special request of the
client and include the use of a chain of custody from that documents the collection,
these protocols document all handling of the samples within the laboratory.
Linear dynamic range: The concentration range over which the analytical curve
remains linear.
Limit of Detection: a laboratorys estimate of the minimum amount of an analyte
in a given matrix that an analytical process can reliably detect in their facility.
Limit of quantitation: the minimum levels, concentrations, or quantities of a
target variable (eg. Target analyte) that can be reported with a specified degree of
confidence.