Also known as LOD or detection limit (DL), is the lowest amount of analyte in a sample that can be detected, but not necessarily quantitated as an exact value. The LOD may be expressed as:

LOD = 3.3 * SD / S

where:
SD = the standard deviation of the response
S = the slope of the calibration curve

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