METHOD FOR ANALYZING MICROORGANISMS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190250169A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-15

    申请号:US16274058

    申请日:2019-02-12

    IPC分类号: G01N33/68 G16B50/00 H01J49/16

    摘要: In a method for analyzing a microorganism using a matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometer, a matrix-and-additive mixture solution prepared by mixing one or both of an alkylphosphonic acid and a surfactant with a matrix substance is used for matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization. Either an alkylphosphonic acid or a surfactant, or both of them are used as matrix additives and are mixed with the matrix substance beforehand to prepare a matrix-and-additive mixture solution. After a solution which contains a microorganism to be analyzed has been dropped onto a sample plate, the matrix-and-additive mixture solution is dropped onto that solution and dried to form a mixed crystal which contains both the constituents of the microorganism and the matrix substance. This crystal is used as a sample for MALDI-MS analysis. The sensitivity of analysis is thereby improved, without increasing the amount of time and labor required for sample preparation.

    METHOD OF DETERMINING PRESENCE OF ISOTOPES
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190244797A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-08

    申请号:US16343192

    申请日:2017-10-16

    发明人: Kieran FLANAGAN

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

    摘要: A method of determining the presence of isotopes in a sample, comprising (i) providing a sample beam containing the sample; (ii) causing the sample beam to travel back and forth along a single longitudinal axis; (iii) ionising the sample beam with one or more lasers, wherein ionising the sample beam comprises operating the one or more lasers at a plurality of frequencies; (iv) determining time of flight data of a first part of the sample beam relative to a second part of the sample beam; (v) determining an ionisation time using the time of flight data; (vi) obtaining data relating to the frequency of the one or more lasers at the ionisation time; and (vii) determining the presence of isotopes in the sample using the data relating to the frequency of the one or more lasers at the ionisation time.

    Mass spectrometer with bypass of a fragmentation device

    公开(公告)号:US10083825B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-25

    申请号:US15639545

    申请日:2017-06-30

    IPC分类号: H01J49/00 H01J49/10 H01J49/34

    摘要: A method for analyzing a mixture of components includes forming precursor ions from the components, alternately causing the precursor ions to pass to and to by-pass a fragmentation device, to form product ions from the precursor ions that pass to the device and to form substantially fewer product ions from precursor ions that by-pass the device, and obtaining mass spectra from product ions received from the device and from precursor ions that by-passed the device. An apparatus for analyzing a sample includes an ion source for forming precursor ions from the components of the sample, a fragmentation device for forming product ions from the precursor ions, a by-pass device disposed upstream of the fragmentation device for switchable by-pass of the fragmentation device, and a mass analyzer.