Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pattern measuring device and a computer program capable of performing highly accurate measurement of a pattern height, without depending on existence of electrification, etc.SOLUTION: A pattern measuring device and a computer program are configured: to detect a portion separated away from an edge of the pattern and having a predetermined signal strength, according to a detection signal obtained by scanning a specimen with an electron beam; and to derive a height of the pattern on the basis of positional information of the portion. With this configuration, highly accurate measurement of a pattern height can be performed without depending on existence of electrification, etc.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid a peptide ion derived from a protein that has already been measured and that is expressed in great quantities as a tandem mass spectroscopy target, and to determine a peptide or the like derived from a minute amount of protein, which has heretofore been difficult to analyze as a tandem mass spectroscopy target, automatically within the real time of measurement, during the structural analysis of a protein or peptide by tandem mass spectroscopy. SOLUTION: Data concerning a protein that has already been measured and a peptide derived from the protein are automatically stored in an internal database. The stored data are collated with measured data with high accuracy to determine an isotope peak. In this way, the process of selecting a peptide peak that has not been measured as the target for the next tandem analysis can be performed within the real time of measurement and a redundant measurement of peptides derived from the same protein can be avoided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tandem type mass analyzing system capable of performing fluctuation analysis with high efficiency by a tandem type mass analyzer. SOLUTION: A predetermined number of m/z regions are set, all of ions contained in the m/z regions are collectively separated at every m/z region and mass analysis is performed to acquire measured MS 2 data. The measured MS 2 data is compared with the reference MS 2 data stored in a reference database to detect the difference between both of them. Mass analysis not separating all of ions contained in the m/z region where a fluctuation component is detected is performed with respect to the m/z region to acquire measured MS 1 data and the measured MS 1 data is compared with reference MS 1 data to detect the difference between these data. Parent ions considered to be the cause of the fluctuation component are estimated from the difference and separated to perform mass analysis. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To determine whether a measured object is a material required by a user within a real time of measurement when a material (especially protein, sugar chain, or the like) is analyzed. SOLUTION: In a mass spectrometry system using a tandem mass spectrometry device, a specific material obtained by sample separation is ionized, the spectrum acquired by mass spectrometry of it is compared with a previously recorded specific spectrum, whether both match with each other is determined, and, when they match with each other, the specific ion is further ionized and detail analysis is performed. The present invention discloses the mass spectrometry method, the diagnosis system and inspection system using the mass spectrometry system, and the program for making a computer for controlling these systems attain a desired function. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problems in the present mass spectrometry system wherein it cannot be determined during measurement whether information necessary for analysis is sufficient or not when analyzing a material (especially a protein, a sugar chain or the like), and it is difficult to determine an isomer having a completely equal mass or a compound having a very similar mass only from MS data. SOLUTION: In this system, it is determined during the actual time of measurement whether a retention time of LC (or GC) of a peptide generated when a protein is subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis agrees with a predicted retention time estimated from an amino acid sequence predicted from MS 2 mass spectrum data, thereby determines the quality (information quantity) of the MS 2 mass spectrum data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mass analyzing system capable of accurately obtaining the data of a measuring object required by a user, with high efficiency. SOLUTION: In a tandem-type mass analyzing system, a database is searched in relation to the first parameter of precursor ions for MS 1 mass analysis, when the intensity of the peak ions of an MS 1 mass spectrum is a predetermined threshold or higher, when the candidate of precursor ions for MS 2 mass analysis is selected to determine whether the ions are stored in the data base. When the intensity of the peak ions of the MS 1 mass spectrum is lower than the predetermined threshold, the database is searched in relation to a second parameter that is smaller than the first parameter, to determine whether the peak ions are stored in the database and the ions that are not stored in the database are selected as the candidate of the precursor ions for the MS 2 mass analysis. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform tandem mass analysis with high efficiency without performing waste dissociation and analysis. SOLUTION: This tandem mass analyzing system is equipped with mass analyzing means (14 and 14A) for dissociating a specific ion kind selected from a plurality of parent ions into a plurality of dissociation ions to perform mass analysis and constituted so as to use the dissociation ions dissociated in the front stage as the parent ions to repeat mass analysis. The tandem mass analyzing system is equipped with a database (10) for storing the respective dissociation data of a plurality of the dissociation ions analyzed by mass analysis in the front stage and a combination and determination means (16) for combining a plurality of dissociation data and using the combined dissociation data to determinate a specific ion seed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable tandem analysis of high efficiency and high throughput in a system for subjecting the sample separated by a chromatography apparatus to tandem mass analysis. SOLUTION: Elution is started with a predetermined time lag from a plurality of chromatography devices arrange to a mass analyzer in parallel and mass analysis is performed by the succeeding mass analyzer. In this method, the chromatogram in the preceding chromatography device is subjected to real time analysis and the analyzing result is used in a real time in the alteration of the elution condition of the succeeding chromatography device. The mass analyzing system suitable for making mass analysis is also provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance measuring throughput in measuring a sample, which is converted to an isotope, using a tandem type mass analyzer in a mass analyzing method which is related to a mass analyzer and an analyzing system of a mass analyzing spectrum and precisely identfies and determinates a biopolymer such as protein, polypeptide, sugar, nucleic acid or the like with high throughput, and a mass analyzing system therefor. SOLUTION: In the analyzing technique of an isotope labelling sample using the tandem type mass analyzer, the measuring (MS 1 ) spectrum of the first stage is analyzed in a real time within a measuring session and ions used in dissociation/spectrum measurement (MS 2 ) on and after the second stage are determined. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of scanning an electron beam for forming an electric field to properly guide electrons discharged from a pattern to the outside of the pattern, and an electron scanning microscope.SOLUTION: When a sample is irradiated with the electron beam for forming electrification, after irradiating a first electron beam at a first position and a second position using a center of the pattern formed on the sample as a symmetrical point, the first electron beam is further irradiated at two center positions between a first and a second irradiation positions, which are on the same radius as that of the first and the second positions having the symmetrical point as the center. After that, the irradiation of the first electron beam at the center position between the scanned positions on the radius is further repeated.