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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2020
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Noriyuki Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) system includes an ion trap, in which ions are trapped and subsequent ejected by mass-selective ejection (MSE). The system may have a linear quadrupole configuration, in which the ion trap is a linear ion trap (LIT) that is preceded by a pre-LIT linear quadrupole device and/or a post-LIT quadrupole device. The pre-LIT and/or post-LIT quadrupole device may be configured or operated as an RF-only ion guide or as a mass filter or mass analyzer, with or without mass scanning. The system may be utilized in particular for multi-element analysis of fast transient signals produced from ion pulses, where the sample under analysis is a single particle, single biological cell, or a cloud or aerosol produced for example by single-shot laser ablation.