The MALDI Process and Method

MALDI MS: A Practical Guide to Instrumentation, Methods and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-28

  Hillenkamp, Franz ^a   Karas, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation desorption process; Analyte incorporation; Fragmentation of MALDI ions; Ionization; Laser radiation; MALDI mass spectrometry; MALDI of non covalent complexes; Method; Process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889344550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527610464.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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