backgroundCorrect
and is not normally called directly by the user.
normexp.signal(par, x)
normexp.fit
for details.normmean
is computed conditional on background at each spot.
Silver, JD, Ritchie, ME, and Smyth, GK (2009). Microarray background correction: maximum likelihood estimation for the normal-exponential convolution. Biostatistics 10, 352-363. http://biostatistics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/kxn042
normexp.fit
An overview of background correction functions is given in 04.Background
.