Quantitative MALDI-MSn Analysis of Cocaine in the Autopsied Brain of a Human Cocaine User Employing a Wide Isolation Window and Internal Standards

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 564-571

  Reich, Richard F ^a   Cudzilo, Kasia ^a   Levisky, Joseph A ^a   Yost, Richard A ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTE IONS; ANALYTES; BRAIN TISSUE; CRYSTAL FORMATION; ENDOGENOUS COMPOUND; INCONSISTENT SAMPLES; INTERNAL STANDARDS; LASER SHOTS; MALDI-MS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION/IONIZATION; MATRIX CLUSTER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SAMPLE PRETREATMENT; SIGNAL VARIABILITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TARGET IONS;

BRAIN; DESORPTION; IONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TISSUE;

STANDARDS;

COCAINE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN TISSUE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARD; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COCAINE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION;

EID: 77950322164     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2009.12.014     Document Type: Article

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