Vehicle-Mounted Portable Mass Spectrometry System for the Covert Detection via Spatial Analysis of Clandestine Methamphetamine Laboratories

Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 87, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 11501-11508

  Mach, Phillip M ^a   Mcbride, Ethan M ^a   Sasiene, Zachary J ^a   Brigance, Katie R ^a   Kennard, Shelia K ^a   Wright, Kenneth C ^b   Verbeck, Guido F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b Leybold Inficon   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; DIGITAL STORAGE; EFFLUENTS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; HYBRID VEHICLES; MANUFACTURE; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AREA OF INTEREST; CHEMICAL FINGERPRINT; LOCATION BASED; MASS SPECTRA; MEMBRANE INLETS; MOBILE PLATFORM; PORTABLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

DRUG PRODUCTS;

METHAMPHETAMINE;

ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DEVICES; LABORATORY; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ATMOSPHERE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; LABORATORIES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHAMPHETAMINE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 84947251557     PISSN: 00032700     EISSN: 15206882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03269     Document Type: Article

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