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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2011
Craig M. Whitehouse, Branford, CT (US);
Thomas Dresch, Berlin, DE;
Bruce Andrien, Jr., Guilford, CT (US);
Craig M. Whitehouse, Branford, CT (US);
Thomas Dresch, Berlin, DE;
Bruce Andrien, Jr., Guilford, CT (US);
PerkinElmer Health Sciences Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes an atmospheric pressure ion source; a first vacuum stage and a second vacuum stage separated from the first vacuum stage by a vacuum partition; a first ion guide positioned within a first vacuum stage and arranged to receive ions from the atmospheric pressure ion source; a second ion guide positioned within a second vacuum stage downstream of the first vacuum stage from the atmospheric pressure ion source, the second ion guide being a multipole ion guide arranged to receive ions from the first ion guide; and a time-of-flight mass analyzer that includes an orthogonal pulsing region arranged to receive ions from the second ion guide.