Membrane inlet mass spectrometry for Homeland security and forensic applications

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 231-239

  Giannoukos, Stamatios ^a   Brkić, Boris ^a   Taylor, Stephen ^a   France, Neil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Q Technologies Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CWAs; Drugs; Explosives; Homeland security; Membrane inlet mass spectrometry; Threat odors

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL WARFARE; ESTERS; EXPLOSIVES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NATIONAL SECURITY; ODORS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SPECTROMETRY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

2-CHLOROETHYL ETHYL SULFIDES; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CWAS; DIMETHYL METHYLPHOSPHONATE; DRUGS; FORENSIC APPLICATIONS; HOME LAND SECURITY; MEMBRANE INLET MASS SPECTROMETRY;

MEMBRANES;

2 NITROTOLUENE; ACETONE; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; CYCLOHEXANONE; EXPLOSIVE; ISOPRENE; NARCOTIC AGENT; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXYGEN; PIPERIDINE; SARIN; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BREATHING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKIN SECRETION; SWEAT; VAPOR PRESSURE;

EID: 84922505540     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-014-1032-7     Document Type: Article

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