Suitcase TOF: A man-portable time-of-flight mass spectrometer

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 14-19

  Ecelberger, Scott A ^a   Cornish, Timothy J ^a,b   Collins, Bernard F ^c   Lewis, Douglas L ^a   Bryden, Wayne A ^d  

^a APL   (United States)

^b FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Security Technology Department   (United States)

^d APL Res and Technol Devmt Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MICROCHANNEL PLATE (MCP) DETECTOR; TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER (TOFMS);

ANTIOXIDANTS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATIENT MONITORING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 8344286322     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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