A theoretical approach to the interpretation of the transient data in scanning laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry: Consideration of the geometry of the scanning area

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 474-483

  Plotnikov, Alexei ^a   Vogt, Carla ^b   Wetzig, Klaus ^c   Kyriakopoulos, Antonios ^a  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laser ablation ICP MS; Scanning; Signal deconvolution; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

MASS SPECTROMETRY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL DECONVOLUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

LASER ABLATION;

EID: 41449087938     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2007.12.012     Document Type: Article

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