期刊
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 407, 期 8, 页码 2055-2062出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-014-8158-0
关键词
Mass spectrometry; Imaging; Spectroscopy/instrumentation
资金
- Comprehensive Analytical Science and Technology (COAST) foundation,
An in-vacuum position-sensitive micropixelated detector (Timepix) is used to investigate the time-dependent spatial distribution of different charge state (and hence different mass-to-charge (m/z)) ions exiting an electrospray ionization (ESI)-based quadrupole mass spectrometer (QMS) instrument. Ion images obtained from the Timepix detector provide a detailed insight into the positions of stable and unstable ions of the mass peak as they exit the QMS. With the help of image processing algorithms and by selecting areas on the ion images where more stable ions impact the detector, an improvement in mass resolution by a factor of 5 was obtained for certain operating conditions. Moreover, our experimental approach of mass resolution enhancement was confirmed by in-house-developed novel QMS instrument simulation software. Utilizing the imaging-based mass resolution enhancement approach, the software predicts instrument mass resolution of similar to 1,0000 for a single-filter QMS instrument with a 210-mm long mass filter and a low operating frequency (880 kHz) of the radio frequency (RF) voltage.
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