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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2008
Applicant:
James Hager, Mississauga, CA;
Inventor:
James Hager, Mississauga, CA;
Assignees:
MDS Analytical Technologies, Concord, CA;
Applied Biosystems Inc., Framingham, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 49/42 (2006.01); H01J 49/00 (2006.01); B01D 59/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of operating a mass spectrometer system having an ion trap is provided. The method comprises encoding a selected characteristic in at least one of the first group of precursor ions and the first plurality of fragments, wherein the encoding operation is applied to at least one of the first group of precursor ions and the first plurality of fragments without being applied to other ions such that the first plurality of fragment ions has the first selected characteristic and the other ions lack the first selected characteristic.