METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DETERMINING THE INTACT MASS OF LARGE MOLECULES FROM MASS SPECTROGRAPHIC DATA

    公开(公告)号:US20180301326A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-18

    申请号:US15881698

    申请日:2018-01-26

    申请人: Marshall BERN

    发明人: Marshall BERN

    IPC分类号: H01J49/00 H01J49/16

    CPC分类号: H01J49/0036 H01J49/165

    摘要: Methods and apparatuses for the identification and/or characterization of properties of a sample using mass spectrometry. The method involves using a measured spectrum of data from a sample taken with a mass spectrometer, deconvoluting the measured spectrum of data by applying parsimony weighting to minimize the number of charge states based on one or more of: the number of intense peaks in the mass spectrum; the number of harmonic relationships (e.g., masses in small integer ratios); and the number of off-by-one relationships (e.g., m/z bins with high probability for two adjacent charges). Thus, the underlying m/z spectrum may be inferred from the family of plausible deconvoluted spectra determined by applying parsimony and the inferred m/z spectrum may be used to identify and/or characterize the sample.

    Mass spectrometry device
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09892901B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-13

    申请号:US15324092

    申请日:2015-06-15

    摘要: A mass spectrometry device that can perform highly robust, highly sensitive, and low-noise analysis and addresses the problems of preventing reductions in ion transfer efficiency and of suppressing the introduction of noise components from droplets, etc. An ion source generates ions, a vacuum chamber is evacuated by an evacuation means and for analyzing the mass of ions, and an ion introduction electrode introduces ions into the vacuum chamber. The ion introduction electrode has an ion-source-side front-stage pore, a vacuum-chamber-side rear-stage pore, and an intermediate pressure chamber between the front-stage pore and the rear-stage pore, the cross-sectional area of an ion inlet of the intermediate pressure chamber is larger than the cross-sectional area of the front-stage pore, the position of the central axis of the front-stage pore and the position of the central axis of the rear-stage pore are eccentric, and the cross-sectional area of an ion outlet of the intermediate pressure chamber is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the ion inlet.