A quadrupole mass spectrometer for resolution of low mass isotopes

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1364-1370

  Sreekumar, Jeyan ^a   Hogan, Thomas J ^a   Taylor, Stephen ^a   Turner, Phillip ^b   Knott, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b AWE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETERS;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; LOW MASS; PROCESS ENVIRONMENT; QUADRUPOLE MASS FILTERS; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETER; QUANTITATIVE IDENTIFICATION; SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; STABILITY DIAGRAM;

ISOTOPES;

ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; FILTER; ION TRANSPORT; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

EID: 78649529356     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2010.03.041     Document Type: Article

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