Science & Engineering Services, Incorporated

Bruker Daltonik Gmbh

Alexander Misharin

Vladimir M Doroshenko

Roman Zubarev

Victor V Laiko

Oleg Silivra

Frank Kjeldsen

Konstantin Novoselov

A method and system for deconvolution of a frequency spectrum obtained in an ICR mass spectrometer based on a detection of ion oscillation overtones of the M-th order (where the integer M&#x3e;1). A plurality of frequency peaks is collected within the frequency spectrum corresponding respectively to oscillations of different groups of ions, and associates at least one of the frequency peaks having a frequency f and a measured amplitude A with a particular group of the ions. The method and system identify whether the frequency peak is related to one of an overtone frequency, a subharmonic frequency, a higher harmonic frequency, or a side-shifted frequency of the oscillations of the different group of ions. The method and system derive calculated amplitudes of the overtone frequency peaks associated with the groups of ions by incorporating measured amplitudes of the frequency peaks related to the subharmonic frequency, the higher harmonic frequency, or the side-shifted frequency associated with the groups of ions into the calculated amplitudes of the overtone frequency peaks. The method and system generate a deconvoluted frequency spectrum including the overtone frequency peaks associated with the different groups of ions.

Spectral deconvolution in ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry

An orbital ion trap for electrostatic field ion trapping which includes an electrode structure defining an internal volume of the trap with at least some of electrode surfaces shaped to substantially follow equipotential lines of an ideal quadro-logarithmic electric potential around a longitudinal axis z. The ideal electric potential has an inner potential canyon, an outer potential canyon, and a low potential passage therebetween. The trap includes a trapping voltage supply which provides trapping voltages on the electrodes to generate a trapping electrostatic potential within the internal volume of the trap. The trapping electrostatic potential closely approximates at least a part of the ideal electric potential in at least a part of the internal volume of the trap.

Electrostatic orbital trap mass spectrometer

A mass spectrometry (MS) method which includes generating in a vicinity of the quadrupole ion trap hydrogen molecules, directing at least part of the hydrogen molecules into the quadrupole ion trap cell, applying AC and DC voltages to quadrupole ion trap cell electrodes to create a combined AC/DC trapping field, placing sample ions inside the quadrupole ion trap cell, cooling at least part of said ions using said hydrogen molecules as a buffer gas, changing the combined AC/DC trapping field to eject the ions from the quadrupole ion trap cell, and detecting the ejected ions.

Portable ion trap mass spectrometer with metal hydride container as source of hydrogen buffer gas

A portable mass spectrometer having an atmospheric pressure interface for introducing ions generated at ambient pressure gas conditions into a vacuum of the mass spectrometer. The mass spectrometer has a vacuum chamber having at least one vacuum section and at least one gas inlet for directing the ambient pressure gas including the ions into the at least one vacuum section. The at least one gas inlet has a gas passage channel of a length L and a limiting cross section S with a ratio of L/S being less than 20,000 cm. The mass spectrometer has a radio frequency (RF) ion guide in the at least one vacuum section positioned for collecting the ions from the at least one gas inlet and transmitting the ions further to a mass analyzer for analyzing the ions transmitted from the ion guide.

Portable mass spectrometer with atmospheric pressure interface

A measuring cell of an ICR mass spectrometer and a method of operating a measuring cell of the ICR mass spectrometer. The method and system trap ions in a first compartment of the ICR measuring cell by generating an electric potential well in the direction of the magnetic field with a minimum of the electric potential well located inside the first compartment. The method and system excite cyclotron motion of the ions trapped in the first compartment. The method and system transfer at least a part of the excited ions from the first compartment to a second compartment of the ICR measuring cell by displacement of a position of the minimum of the electric potential well from the first compartment to the second compartment. The ions are transferred by displacing the position of the minimum of the electric potential well from the first compartment to the second compartment preferably over a period of time equal to or longer than a characteristic period of ion oscillations along the direction of the magnetic field in the electric potential well. The method and system detect ion cyclotron motion of at least a part of the ions in the second compartment.

Ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer system and a method of operating the same

An ion cyclotron resonance cell has at least one trapping electrode comprised of electrically isolated sections that are used for the detection of an induced ion image signal. Such an arrangement increases the sensitivity of image signal detection without a significant increase in the amplitude of parasitic harmonics. When a multielectrode detection arrangement is used, the resolving power of an analyzer incorporating such a cyclotron resonance cell multiplies without a corresponding sensitivity loss.

Measuring cell for ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for the fragmentation of large molecules, especially biopolymers. The invention consists in reacting analyte ions with excited or radical neutral particles, whereby, at least in the case of bombardment of analyte ions with helium atoms from an FAB generator, a new type of fragmentation occurs which strongly resembles fragmentation by electron capture (ECD). The reactions may be performed in magnetic ion traps (ion cyclotron resonance cells, ICR), in RF ion traps according to Wolfgang Paul, in RF ion guides, or in free beams of analyte ions or neutral particles.

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Alexander Misharin