The phrase "allowed him to detect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation where someone is given the ability or opportunity to notice or identify something.
Example: "The new technology allowed him to detect subtle changes in the environment that were previously unnoticed."
Alternatives: "enabled him to perceive" or "permitted him to notice".
Colleagues say his skill at mining enormous data sets allows him to detect shared genetic risks for different diseases.
But the beauty of the new technology, says Silver, is that it also incorporates software that allows him to detect mutations that have never been implicated before and work out if qthey would be likely to lead to enough protein damage – because genes are the code for building proteins – to cause the disease.
(You could add to the latter Dante, interpreted, in effect, as a symbolist poet by Eliot).Eliot's symbolism is mostly of the first kind, and allows him to detect what is uncanny, uninterpretable, suggestive of "feelings into which we cannot peer", in the language of his literary predecessors.
Maggioni's algorithms allow him to detect and measure these changes in molecular configuration space, hyperspectral movies or networks and network traffic.
Gebauer began his work by building an experimental setup that would allow him to detect the presence of the various chemical species as he brought the solution to supersaturation.
James keeps a radio with him, which alerts him to the presence of creatures by emitting static, allowing him to detect them even through the thick fog.
Artemis had anticipated this, however, and installed a camera with a high frames-per-second rate, allowing him to detect the threat by freezing the image.
But in the spider model, the radiologist should have a network that allows him to notice and detect everything that happens within his subspecialty territory.
Miikka Terho, 46, from Finland, was fitted with an experimental chip which allows him patient to detect objects with his eyes.
