The phrase "able to detect several" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the capability of identifying multiple items, signals, or phenomena.
Example: "The new software is able to detect several anomalies in the data set that were previously overlooked."
Alternatives: "capable of identifying multiple" or "able to recognize several".
With this large sample size, the authors were able to detect several statistically significant associations: Detection rates were higher in males, in people > 40 years of age, in people with more education, and in individuals who smoked and/or consumed alcohol.
In 2003, the company was approached by the Dutch national railroad, which wanted to be able to detect several kinds of sound that might indicate trouble in stations and on trains (glass-breaking, graffiti-spraying, and aggressive voices).
In a patient with prostate cancer, 18F-fluoroacetate was also able to detect several but not all bone metastases [83, 84].
In spite of the low sequence similarity, Geomfinder was able to detect several similar 3D patterns between SERT y MAO-A, one of which correspond to the MLG binding site in MAO-A and the binding site S2 of SERT.
We were able to detect several protein spots that were altered upon DFMO treatment.
We were able to detect several miRNAs, which showed evidence of significant internal editing (>5%) in juvenile mice.
It is also possible, however, that the lower relative abundance of microsatellites could obscure a more general broad scale association than we were able to detect, since several repeat types have higher mean frequencies in hotspot flanking regions but are too sparse for statistical significance.
In reconstruction experiments as well as in samples from one rheumatoid arthritis patient, we were readily able to detect and follow several T cell clones with a frequency as low as 10−5 among CD8+ T cells.
FIRMA is able to detect exons in several genes confirmed by reverse transcriptase PCR.
However, we were not able to detect 4OHtam in several tissue samples, and 4OHNDtam and tamNox were not quantified in the previous study.
In the present study, we were able to detect expression of several CXC and CC ligand genes in the salivary glands starting at 8 weeks of age, the precise time when leukocytes begin entering the exocrine tissues in large numbers.
