Use of windowed mass spectrometry data for retention time determination or confirmation
US9343276B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 15, 2012 |
| Grant date | May 17, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 15, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01J49/26
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A scan of a separating sample is received by a mass spectrometer at each interval of a plurality of intervals. The spectrometer performs at each interval one or more mass spectrometry scans. The scans have one or more sequential mass window widths in order to span an entire mass range at each interval and produce a collection of spectra for the entire mass range for the plurality of intervals. One or more peaks at one or more different intervals in the collection of spectra are identified for a fragment ion. A mass spectrum of the entire mass range is retrieved for each interval of each peak. Values for one or more ion characteristics of a mass-to-charge ratio peak in the mass spectrum corresponding to each peak are compared to one or more known values for the fragment ion. Each peak is scored based on the comparison.
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