PEAK WIDTH ESTIMATION IN MASS SPECTRA

    公开(公告)号:US20220013343A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-13

    申请号:US17186650

    申请日:2021-02-26

    发明人: Tobias BOSKAMP

    IPC分类号: H01J49/00 G01N33/483

    摘要: The disclosure relates to a method for processing a mass spectrum, comprising: (i) providing the mass spectrum which contains a plurality of data pairs, each data pair being representative of a mass value or mass-related value on a mass scale or mass-related scale and an abundance value or abundance-related value associated with the respective mass value or mass-related value, (ii) selecting a plurality of intervals on the mass scale or mass-related scale, each interval containing a multitude of the said data pairs, (iii) for each interval, applying a first mathematical-statistical analysis to the said data pairs contained in the respective interval in order to derive an interval-specific peak width, and (iv) using the said interval-specific peak widths to determine an estimated peak width for each mass value or mass-related value on the mass scale or mass-related scale.

    SEPARATION OF LIQUID IN DROPLETS AND SEDIMENTED MATERIAL ENCLOSED THEREIN

    公开(公告)号:US20210217601A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-15

    申请号:US17219230

    申请日:2021-03-31

    IPC分类号: H01J49/04 G01N1/28 B01L3/00

    摘要: The invention relates to methods for drawing-off liquid from individual droplets which are in a predefined arrangement on a flat substrate and have sedimented material enclosed in them. A mask of an absorbent material comprising a pattern of indentations or holes which corresponds at least partially to the regular arrangement of the individual droplets, or a stiff, rigid plate of an absorbent material is positioned above the flat substrate in such a way that the droplets come into contact with the absorbent material peripherally so that liquid is drawn off there-into. The invention also relates to a mask of an absorbent material with a substantially rectangular shape which has a predefined pattern of indentations or holes for the purpose of separating liquid and sedimented material enclosed therein.

    Method of operating a secondary-electron multiplier in the ion detector of a mass spectrometer

    公开(公告)号:US11049705B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-29

    申请号:US16359491

    申请日:2019-03-20

    IPC分类号: H01J49/02 H01J49/40 H01J49/00

    摘要: The disclosure relates to a method of operating a secondary-electron multiplier in the ion detector of a mass spectrometer so as to prolong the service life, wherein the secondary-electron multiplier is supplied with an operating voltage in such a way that an amplification of less than 106 secondary electrons per impinging ion results, while the output current of the secondary-electron multiplier is amplified using an electronic preamplifier mounted close to the secondary-electron multiplier with such a low noise level that the current pulses of individual ions impinging on the ion detector are detected above the noise at the input of a digitizing unit. Further disclosed are the use of the methods for imaging mass spectrometric analysis of a thin tissue section or mass spectrometric high-throughput analysis/massive-parallel analysis, and a time-of-flight mass spectrometer whose control unit is programmed to execute such methods.

    Separation of liquid in droplets and sedimented material enclosed therein

    公开(公告)号:US11017993B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-25

    申请号:US15912694

    申请日:2018-03-06

    IPC分类号: H01J49/04 B01L3/00 G01N1/28

    摘要: The invention relates to methods for drawing-off liquid from individual droplets which are in a predefined arrangement on a flat substrate and have sedimented material enclosed in them. A mask of an absorbent material comprising a pattern of indentations or holes which corresponds at least partially to the regular arrangement of the individual droplets, or a stiff, rigid plate of an absorbent material is positioned above the flat substrate in such a way that the droplets come into contact with the absorbent material peripherally so that liquid is drawn off there-into. The invention also relates to a mask of an absorbent material with a substantially rectangular shape which has a predefined pattern of indentations or holes for the purpose of separating liquid and sedimented material enclosed therein.

    MASS SPECTROMETRIC DETERMINATION OF TISSUE STATES

    公开(公告)号:US20200381229A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-03

    申请号:US16888137

    申请日:2020-05-29

    摘要: The invention relates to a method for the determination and visualization of the spatial distribution of tissue states of a tissue sample, wherein a mass/mobility map is acquired at each of a plurality of sample sites of the tissue sample, the signal heights at each sample site are determined at characteristic signal positions in the corresponding mass/mobility map, from which a tissue state for each sample site is calculated with the aid of a mathematical/statistical classification algorithm, and the spatial distribution of the tissue states calculated for the sample sites is represented graphically.

    EVALUATION OF COMPLEX MASS SPECTROMETRY DATA FROM BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES

    公开(公告)号:US20200328069A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-15

    申请号:US16826966

    申请日:2020-03-23

    发明人: Tobias BOSKAMP

    IPC分类号: H01J49/00 G01N33/68 G16B40/10

    摘要: The disclosure relates to a method which is suitable for the quality control and signal correction of mass spectrometry data of biological tissue samples and is based on the analysis of the chemical background signal observed in a spectrum. It exploits the fact that the chemical background signal contains components from a plurality of polymer molecules, whose chemical structure has strong regularities. These regularities mean that the observed masses are subject to certain statistical distributions, which are each characteristic of the class of molecule. By analyzing these statistical properties, it is possible to detect and correct any mass shifts which may be present.

    METHODS FOR DETERMINING ISOMERIC AMINO ACID RESIDUES OF PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES

    公开(公告)号:US20200327961A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-15

    申请号:US16838386

    申请日:2020-04-02

    发明人: Detlev SUCKAU

    IPC分类号: G16B40/10 G01N33/68

    摘要: The present invention relates to a mass spectrometric method for determining isomeric amino acid residues of a peptide and comprises the steps of: generating a list of peptide candidates using the amino acid lead sequence of the peptide, said lead sequence comprising positions of determined amino acid residues and at least one position with undetermined isomeric amino acid residues; predicting the collision cross section for each peptide candidate; comparing the predicted collision cross section of each peptide candidate with an experimentally determined collision cross section of the peptide and assigning the isomeric amino acid residues of the best matching peptide candidate to the isomeric amino acid residues of the peptide.

    Desorption beam control with virtual axis tracking in time-of-flight mass spectrometers

    公开(公告)号:US10796896B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-06

    申请号:US16422821

    申请日:2019-05-24

    发明人: Sebastian Böhm

    IPC分类号: H01J49/00 H01J49/40 H01J49/16

    摘要: The invention relates to time-of-flight mass spectrometers with pulsed ionization of samples, for example by matrix-assisted laser desorption (MALDI), where the samples are located on a sample support and are irradiated and ionized one after the other in a grid by a position-controlled desorption beam. An ion-optical puller lens arrangement is positioned in front of the sample support, with at least one of the lens diaphragms in the arrangement being subdivided into segments, and a voltage supply being able to supply the segments, or some of them, with different voltages, depending on the impact position of the desorption beam on the support plate. It is then possible to virtually shift the effective ion-optical focusing center of the lens away from the axis, and to focus an ion beam, which is generated off the real lens axis, into a beam which runs essentially parallel to the real lens axis, with no time phase shift for ions of the same mass. This beam can be brought back onto the axis by an x/y deflection unit, for example for operating the time-of-flight mass spectrometer with a reflector.

    TURBO MOLECULAR PUMP FOR MASS SPECTROMETER
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200058479A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-20

    申请号:US16525165

    申请日:2019-07-29

    IPC分类号: H01J49/04 F04D19/04 H01J49/24

    摘要: The invention relates to turbo molecular pumps enabling high pumping speed. The disclosure suggests using one or more cage-like rotor stages to optimize pumping speed on vacuum systems with low gas flows and low ultimate pressures. This allows for a smaller motor as well as smaller overall form factor and makes it well suited, in particular, for compact mass spectrometers and desk-top mass spectrometers.