Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of correlating precursor and fragment ions using ion mobility and mass to charge ratio
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Application No.: US15035965Application Date: 2014-11-11
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Publication No.: US10586691B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: John Brian Hoyes , Steven Derek Pringle , Farnoush Salarzaei , Jason Lee Wildgoose
- Applicant: Micromass UK Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Wilmslow
- Assignee: Micromass UK Limited
- Current Assignee: Micromass UK Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Wilmslow
- Priority: EP13192589 20131112; GB1319958.3 20131112
- International Application: PCT/GB2014/053336 WO 20141111
- International Announcement: WO2015/071650 WO 20150521
- Main IPC: H01J49/00
- IPC: H01J49/00 ; H01J49/42 ; G01N27/62

Abstract:
A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising separating precursor ions using an ion mobility separator such that different precursor ions have different drift times through the on mobility separator; mass filtering said separated precursor ions with a mass filter, wherein the mass to charge ratios of the precursor ions transmitted by the mass filter vary as a function of the drift times of the precursor ions through the ion mobility separator; performing a first mode of operation comprising fragmenting the separated and mass filtered precursor ions in a fragmentation device to form fragment ions; urging the fragment ions through the fragmentation device such that fragment ions derived from different precursor ions that have been separated by the ion mobility separator are maintained spatially separated from each other as they are urged through the fragmentation device; and detecting the fragment ions. The method enables precursor ions to be associated with their related fragment ions more accurately.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160293391A1 Method of Correlating Precursor and Fragment Ions Public/Granted day:2016-10-06
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