Parallel Spectral Acquisition with an Ion Cyclotron Resonance Cell Array.

ABSTRACT: Mass measurement accuracy is a critical analytical figure-of-merit in most areas of mass spectrometry application. However, the time required for acquisition of high-resolution, high mass accuracy data limits many applications and is an aspect under continual pressure for development. Current efforts target implementation of higher electrostatic and magnetic fields because ion oscillatory frequencies increase linearly with field strength. As such, the time required for spectral acquisition of a given resolving power and mass accuracy decreases linearly with increasing fields. Mass spectrometer developments to include multiple high-resolution detectors that can be operated in parallel could further decrease the acquisition time by a factor of n, the number of detectors. Efforts described he

SUBMITTER: Park SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4848028 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature