The phrase "able to detect only" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when specifying a limitation in detection capabilities, often in scientific or technical contexts.
Example: "The sensor is able to detect only specific wavelengths of light, making it ideal for this application."
Alternatives: "capable of detecting solely" or "limited to detecting only".
Many samples had levels near the detection limit for KRT19 mRNA; whereas, the ICC-assay was able to detect only a single cell in the majority of positive samples.
He anticipates astronomers will be able to detect only another dozen or so objects in the next few years of the survey.
Differences between diagenesis on Earth and Mars may partly explain why the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover was able to detect only chlorinated benzenes in surface rocks48.
Finally, the SPO method is able to detect only the first local mechanism.
Finally, the SPO method is able to detect only the first local mechanism. .
Chest X-ray (CXR), the most commonly used radiographic modality to detect pleural effusion, is able to detect only relatively large effusions.
It is therefore important to be able to detect not only H. akashiwo but other toxic phytoplankton species as well, rapidly and accurately to reduce losses by fish kills.
The result here demonstrated that this amplification protocol coupled with microarray analysis was able to detect not only individual NoV but also co-occurrence of NoV and HAV present within the same sample.
In that way, we were able to detect not only markers for heterosis prediction, but also factors which are involved in heterosis in only one particular testcross setting, for instance in Col-0 testcrosses.
We then re-analyzed the human brain cDNA library with new primers (see Fig. 2D, the forward primer is within the 16c exon to avoid the spurious Iγ_v2 amplification) but were not able to detect Iγ_v6, only Iγ_v3 (not shown).
Q-PCR techniques are able to detect not only the viral genome in viral particles but also fragments of degraded genome in samples.
