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7619214 Spectrometer chip assembly  
Method and apparatus for high field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry in an electronic chip assembly, including an input section, an ion filter and detection section and a control...
7619213 Ion extraction pulser and method for mass spectrometry  
The invention provides an ion extraction pulser. The ion extraction pulser may be used independently or in conjunction with a mass spectrometry system. The mass spectrometry system includes an ion...
7608818 Compact gas chromatography and ion mobility based sample analysis systems, methods, and devices  
A compact integrated ion mobility based analysis system includes at least one gas chromatograph (GC) column that receives a sample and elutes constituents of the sample where each of the eluted...
7608817 Adiabatically-tuned linear ion trap with fourier transform mass spectrometry with reduced packet coalescence  
A linear ion trap traps a plurality of charged particles in a charged particle trap including first and second electrode mirrors arranged along an axis at opposite ends of the particle trap, the...
7605377 On-chip reflectron and ion optics  
A microelectronics apparatus comprising a substrate, a pair of grid electrodes coupled to the substrate on opposing sides of a central axis, wherein the grid electrodes are substantially parallel...
7595155 Multiplex detection probes  
The present invention comprises detection probes utilizing vesicles or soluble bodies to retain multiple mass tag molecules. The detection probes may be used to simultaneously assay a plurality of...
7589319 Reflector TOF with high resolution and mass accuracy for peptides and small molecules  
Many applications in the study of metabolics and proteomics require measurements on peptides and small molecules with high resolving power and mass accuracy. These are often present in complex...
7589318 Mass defect triggered information dependent acquisition  
Systems and methods for analyzing compounds in a sample. In one embodiment, a mass spectrometer includes an ion source for emitting a plurality of ions from a sample together with a detector...
7586088 Mass spectrometer and method of mass spectrometry  
A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising an ion mobility spectrometer in combination with a quadrupole mass filter which is scanned in synchronization with the pulsing of ions into the ion...
7582863 Sample support for desorption  
An apparatus and method for regenerating ion samples for a mass spectrometer are provided. Source samples are loaded on a support which is heated by a laser beam, desorbing the sample without...
7579586 Ion selector  
The present invention provides an ion selector gate having a first deflection zone 32 and a second deflection zone 34 spaced from the first deflection zone, wherein in use, a single low voltage...
7579585 Method and apparatus for scanning an ion trap mass spectrometer  
A mass spectrometer system having an ion trap and a downstream mass spectrometer is provided. A plurality of groups of ions are provided to the ion trap and a first mass-to-charge ratio is...
7576320 Photoelectric ion source photocathode regeneration system  
An explosive detection system based on an ion mobility spectrometer detects the presence of trace molecules in air. Such instruments require an ion source to ionize the trace molecules. An ion...
7576319 Systems for differential ion mobility analysis  
Disclosed herein are systems, methods and apparatus, for detection and identification of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) using a differential mobility spectrometer.
7569835 Gating grid and method of manufacture  
The present invention relates generally to grids for gating a stream of charged particles and methods for manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a...
7566888 Method and system for treating an interior surface of a workpiece using a charged particle beam  
A method and system of treating an interior surface on an internal cavity of a workpiece using a charged particle beam. A beam deflector surface of a beam deflector is placed within the internal...
7564043 MCP unit, MCP detector and time of flight mass spectrometer  
The present invention relates to an MCP unit or the like having a structure intended to achieve a desired time response characteristic, without depending on a limitation imposed by a channel...
7564028 Vacuum housing system for MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry  
The present invention is directed to ion source and vacuum housings for use in MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry which operates with any type of mass analyzer including linear, reflector, or tandem...
7564026 Linear TOF geometry for high sensitivity at high mass  
The present invention provides a time-of-flight (TOF) mass analyzer. The system includes an analyzer vacuum housing isolated from the evacuated ion source vacuum housing by a gate valve maintained...
7560689 High-sensitivity mass spectrometer and method  
A sample is sliced obliquely with a blade provided with a metal thin film on the surface, and the slice of the sample adhering to the blade surface is subjected to mass spectrometry. As a result,...
7560688 Mass analysis of mobility selected ion populations  
Particular aspects provide novel methods for analysis of ion populations, the methods comprising filtering and selecting an ion population using a low-field dual-gate ion mobility spectrometer...
7557343 Segmented rod multipole as ion processing cell  
A method and apparatus for processing ions in mass spectrometry is provided. The apparatus includes an ion processing cell having segmented multipole rods and a means for admitting reactive reagent...
7550720 Apparatus and method for MALDI source control with external image capture  
A method of MALDI sample plate processing includes capturing an image of a plate positioned outside a mass spectrometer. The image is processed to identify one or more attributes of an individual...
7547880 Drift tube for an ion mobility spectrometer with integrated gas channel  
A drift tube for an ion mobility spectrometer is assembled from stacked tube segments and has electrodes that generate an electric drift field and are electrically contactable from the outside of...
7547878 Neutral/Ion reactor in adiabatic supersonic gas flow for ion mobility time-of-flight mass spectrometry  
The content of the invention comprises a concept of reactor for isolated ion transformations induced by collisions with neutral species. This reactor is also an interface between mobility cell and...
7541576 Method of multiplexed analysis using ion mobility spectrometer  
A method for analyzing analytes from a sample introduced into a Spectrometer by generating a pseudo random sequence of a modulation bins, organizing each modulation bin as a series of submodulation...
7534996 Velocity imaging tandem mass spectrometer  
A mass spectrometer that employs ion velocity mapping. The mass spectrometer includes velocity mapping ion optics that focus the ions based on their velocity. The focused ions are then directed...
7528367 Ion mobility spectrometer  
An ITMS includes an inlet for receiving a sample that will be tested for a substance of interest. The inlet communicates with an ionization chamber and a drift chamber communicates with the...
7528366 Method and apparatus for multiplexing plural ion beams to a mass spectrometer  
A method and apparatus for multiplexing plural ion beams to a mass spectrometer. At least two ion sources are provided with means of transporting the ions from the ion sources to separate...
7521673 Wide range, very high resolution differential mobility analyzer (DMA)  
The resolution of a differential mobility analyzer (DMA) and the range of valid mobility values for the charged particles that it can detect are increased. The DMA makes use of a flat configuration...
7518107 Methods and apparatus for time-of-flight mass spectrometer  
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for compensating for mass error for a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. A reference flight distance for a pulse of ions corresponding to a reference temperature...
7514676 Method and apparatus for selective filtering of ions  
An adjustable, low mass-to-charge (m/z) filter is disclosed employing electrospray ionization to block ions associated with unwanted low m/z species from entering the mass spectrometer and...
7514675 Mass spectrometer  
The present invention provides a single set of mass spectrometer capable of selectively performing the following two modes of analyses according to the purpose of analysis: the first mass...
7507953 Obtaining tandem mass spectrometry data for multiple parent ions in an ion population  
This invention relates to tandem mass spectrometry and, in particular, to tandem mass spectrometry using a linear ion trap and a time of flight detector to collect mass spectra to form a MS/MS...
7504621 Method and system for mass analysis of samples  
A system and method of analyzing a sample is described. The system includes an ion source and a deflector for producing a plurality of ion beams each of which is detected in distinct detection...
7504620 Method and apparatus for time-of-flight mass spectrometry  
A method and apparatus for time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry. The apparatus improves the ion focusing properties in an orthogonal direction and permits connection with an...
7501621 Data acquisition system for a spectrometer using an adaptive threshold  
A data acquisition system and method are described that may be used with various spectrometers. The data acquisition system may include an ion detector and a processing circuit. The processing...
7501620 Laser irradiation mass spectrometer  
The present invention provides a laser irradiation mass spectrometer capable of analyzing components of living tissue or living cells with high accuracy. It includes a laser unit for irradiating a...
7498570 Ion mobility spectrometer  
An ion mobility spectrometer is described having an ion filter in the form of multiple parallel ion channels defined by conductive layers separated by non-conductive layers. A time-varying electric...
7495231 MALDI sample plate imaging workstation  
The invention provides an apparatus for producing an image of a global surface of an ion source sample plate that is exterior to an ion source. In general terms, the apparatus contains a sample...
7493225 Method for calibrating mass spectrometry (MS) and other instrument systems and for processing MS and other data  
A method for obtaining at least one calibration filter for a Mass Spectrometry (MS) instrument system. Measured isotope peak cluster data in a mass spectral range is obtained for a given...
7491931 Power supply regulation using a feedback circuit comprising an AC and DC component  
In various aspects, ion sources, mass spectrometer systems, and a power supply circuit coupled to a feedback circuit are provided. A power supply is provided that includes at least the power supply...
7491930 Hooked differential mobility spectrometry apparatus and method therefore  
Disclosed are a device and method for improved interfacing of differential mobility spectrometry (DMS) or field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) analyzers of substantially...
7491549 Apparatus for desorption and ionization of analytes  
This invention relates generally to methods and apparatus for desorption and ionization of analytes for the purpose of subsequent scientific analysis by such methods, for example, as mass...
7485872 Large area, pico-second resolution, time of flight detectors  
A detector for detecting a particle is disclosed. The detector includes a charge emitter that emits a charge in response to receipt of the particle, an anode for receiving the emitted charge, and...
7482583 Time of flight mass spectrometer  
In a time of flight mass spectrometer (TOFMS) having a flight space in which ions fly in a loop orbit formed by a plurality of electric sector fields, the present invention provides a simple...
7482582 Multi-beam ion mobility time-of-flight mass spectrometry with multi-channel data recording  
The content of the invention comprises a concept of multi-beam ion pre-selection from a single sample, coordinated mobility (against the gas flow) separation, cooling ions in supersonic gas flow...
7482580 Dynamic adjustment of ion monitoring periods  
Methods, systems and computer readable media for dynamically controlling a time period of ion detection by an ion detector of a mass spectrometer. A current resulting from conversion of an output...
7479630 Method and apparatus for flow cytometry linked with elemental analysis  
An apparatus ( 100 ) for sequentially analyzing particles such as single cells or single beads, by spectrometry. The apparatus, an elemental flow cytometer, includes means ( 102 ) for sequential...
7479629 Multichannel rapid sampling of chromatographic peaks by tandem mass spectrometer  
Systems and methods for optimizing the analysis of co-eluting compounds during a cycle of a tandem mass spectrometer system are provided. The tandem mass spectrometer system switches fast from...