Imaging mass spectrometer and method for imaging mass spectrometry

Abstract

A measurement section () performs a mass spectrometric analysis for each micro area within a measurement area on a sample. A dimension reduction processor () performs data processing by non-linear dimension reduction using manifold learning on mass spectrometric data for each micro area, to obtain, for each micro area, a set of data reduced to three dimensions from the dimensions corresponding to the number of mass-to-charge-ratio values. A display color determiner () determines a color for each of the points corresponding to the data of the micro areas after the dimension reduction, by arranging those points within a three-dimensional space having three axes representing the three dimensions, with three primary colors respectively assigned to the three axes. A segmentation image creator () creates a segmentation image corresponding to the measurement area or a partial area in the measurement area, by arranging, on two dimensions, pixels which respectively correspond to the points within the three-dimensional space, where each pixel has a color given to the point corresponding to the pixel and is located according to the position within the measurement area of the micro area corresponding to the point.