Patent ID: 7151605

Claim:
A method of facilitating production of a good spectroscopic data set comprising the steps of: a) acquiring and storing a spectroscopic data set where the independent variable is wavelength, said data set representing the effect a sample has on a beam of electromagnetic radiation over a plurality of wavelengths; b) determining that data acquired in step a is not good at at least one, but not at all wavelengths; c) reacquiring data at said at least one wavelength and replacing the originally obtained stored data at said at least one wavelength with said reacquired data, such that the necessity of reacquiring an entirely new data set is avoided; the result being that a stored data set obtained in step a, as modified by data obtained in step c, provides a stored representation of the effect said sample has on said beam of electomagnetic radiation over said plurality of wavelengths.