Chromatograph mass spectrometer

• Main Author: Nakano Shigenobu
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.08.2016
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS; ELECTRICITY; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; PHYSICS; TESTING

When performing an automatic MS2 analysis on a specimen containing components that include elements whose abundance ratio of stable isotopes is close, to prevent the same component that includes isotopes of differing masses to be successively selected as a precursor ion and allow the MS2 analysis of various components whose retention time to elution is close. As precursor selection conditions, the user is allowed to set in advance the time period for automatic exclusion and a m/z range (−p, q) with respect to any m/z. When the analysis is performed, a precursor selection unit selects a precursor according to a predetermined selection condition for the MS spectrum that was obtained and repeats the MS2 analysis on the precursor ion (m/z=M) for the number of times that is set. Thereafter, for a specified automatic exclusion period, ions falling in a m/z range of M−p to M+q are excluded from selection as a precursor. Since ions that are derived from a component whose difference from the original component from which the ion whose m/z=M is derived is the isotopes will fall in the excluded m/z range, such ions are not used as a precursor ion.