摘要:
A virtual ion trap that uses electric focusing fields instead of machined metal electrodes that normally surround the trapping volume, wherein two opposing surfaces include a plurality of uniquely designed and coated electrodes, and wherein the electrodes can be disposed on the two opposing surfaces using plating techniques that enable much higher tolerances to be met than existing machining techniques.
摘要:
A virtual ion trap that uses electric focusing fields instead of machined metal electrodes that normally surround the trapping volume, wherein two opposing surfaces include a plurality of uniquely designed and coated electrodes, and wherein the electrodes can be disposed on the two opposing surfaces using plating techniques that enable much higher tolerances to be met than existing machining techniques.
摘要:
A cross-flow ion mobility analyzer (CIMA) that includes a component of gas flow that opposes an electric field that is established within a channel, wherein ions are carried through the channel, wherein ions of a specific mobility are trapped by the opposing electric field and flow field within the channel and are detected when the ions reach the end of the channel, wherein a detector at the end of the channel sees a continuous stream of mobility-selected ions, and wherein different ions are selected by modifying the electric field and/or the velocity of the flow field.
摘要:
The present invention is embodied in a method and apparatus for utilizing inherently insulative material, such as the glass and epoxy resins used in construction of printed circuit boards, for construction of components in a time of flight mass spectrometer. By using printed circuit board materials, the present invention can take advantage of fabrication techniques for providing circuit traces on surfaces, from one side to another as a via, or embedded within the printed circuit material so as to be covered except where necessary to be exposed to make contact with other electrical devices. Embedded circuit traces also enable capacitive coupling to AC energy while maintaining electrical and physical isolation. Consequently, the present invention enables both invasive and non-invasive access to pressure and vacuum chambers.
摘要:
In an ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer, ion cyclotron resonance signals at higher harmonics of cyclotron frequency are employed to increase the resolution of ICR mass spectrometer without increasing the magnetic field. The detection electrodes consist of M (where M is an integer) identical electrodes arranged in M-fold symmetry about the axis of the coherent cyclotron motion of the observed ions. In an ion cyclotron having four points of voltage in space, the cyclotron electrodes are set up in clockwise symmetric fashion. To increase the resolution in signal detection resulting from the potential induced by ions moving in orbits in the specrometer, the first and third voltages are added and the second and fourth voltages are subtracted from the sum of the first and third voltages.
摘要:
The present disclosure provides methods and composition involving increased sensitivity of compounds using mass spectrometry. In one embodiment, a method of increasing the sensitivity for detection of a carbonyl group-containing compound by mass spectrometry can comprise derivatizing the carbonyl group-containing compound with an O-substituted hydroxylamine thereby producing an oxime, resulting in enhanced sensitivity of detection by mass spectrometry, as compared to the underivatized carbonyl group-containing compound.Additionally, a method for assaying a carbonyl group-containing compound can comprise reacting the carbonyl group-containing compound in a sample with an O-substituted hydroxylamine to produce an oxime and performing analysis with mass spectrometric detection of the oxime by a mass spectrometry instrument.Further, an assay for a ketosteroid can comprise a derivatized ketosteroid produced by reacting the ketosteroid with an O-substituted hydroxylamine to produce an oxime and a mass spectrometry instrument for performing mass spectrometric analysis on the derivatized ketosteroid.
摘要:
The present disclosure provides methods and composition involving increased sensitivity of compounds using mass spectrometry. In one embodiment, a method of increasing the sensitivity for detection of a carbonyl group-containing compound by mass spectrometry can comprise derivatizing the carbonyl group-containing compound with an O-substituted hydroxylamine thereby producing an oxime, resulting in enhanced sensitivity of detection by mass spectrometry, as compared to the underivatized carbonyl group-containing compound.Additionally, a method for assaying a carbonyl group-containing compound can comprise reacting the carbonyl group-containing compound in a sample with an O-substituted hydroxylamine to produce an oxime and performing analysis with mass spectrometric detection of the oxime by a mass spectrometry instrument.Further, an assay for a ketosteroid can comprise a derivatized ketosteroid produced by reacting the ketosteroid with an O-substituted hydroxylamine to produce an oxime and a mass spectrometry instrument for performing mass spectrometric analysis on the derivatized ketosteroid.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for focusing ions for delivery to an ion detection device using an aerodynamic ion focusing system that uses a high-velocity converging gas flow at an entrance aperture to focus an ion plume by reducing spreading and increasing desolvation of ions, and wherein a voltage is applied to at least a portion of the aerodynamic ion focusing system to assist in the focusing and delivery of ions to the ion detection device.
摘要:
The present invention is embodied in a method and apparatus for transporting ions via a path generated by RF electrodes having a controllable DC field gradient generated thereon which does not suffer from mass discrimination. In a preferred embodiment, the number of electrodes are doubled to thereby use symmetry to cancel an undesirable DC quadrapole field. By eliminating the DC quadrapole field, the passband of the DC field gradient is increased, allowing for ions of higher mass to be transported. The electrodes are either tilted or tapered to thereby generate the desirable DC field gradient. Tilting and/or tapering the electrodes advantageously modifies the DC field gradient to increase the high ion mass cut-off.
摘要:
The present invention provides methods for high throughput analysis of analytes in complex mixtures for unresolved chromatographic peaks including specific embodiment for summing intensities for each mass transition of interest over a selected chromatographic peak (50) to generate a signal corresponding to total intensity for each transition (55, 60). The intensities are deconvoluted into intensities of individual analytes (65, 70), based on branching ratios acquired from authentic standards, and a comparison to calibration curve is performed to obtain a quantitative concentration measurement of a particular analyte in a sample.