Two-dimensional gas chromatography with heart-cutting for isotope ratio mass spectrometry analysis of steroids in doping control

Drug Testing and Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 962-969

  Brailsford, A D ^a   Gavrilovic I ^a   Ansell, R J ^b   Cowan, D A ^a   Kicman, A T ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GC GC; Heart cutting; IRMS; Multidimentional GC; Steroids; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPES; LIPIDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SILICONES; SPECTROMETERS;

ANALYTES; DOPING CONTROL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY COMBUSTION-ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY; GC-GC; HEART-CUTTING; IRMS; MASS SPECTROMETRY ANALYSIS; MULTIDIMENTIONAL GC; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

11 OXOETIOCHOLANOLONE; CYCLOPROPANE DERIVATIVE; DILUENT; DIMETICONE; PHENYL GROUP; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DOPING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROFLUIDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STEROID ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS;

EID: 84871394090     PISSN: 19427603     EISSN: 19427611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dta.1379     Document Type: Article

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