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Agilent Technologies
Agilent 6200 Series TOF and 6500 Series Q-TOF LC/MS System
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Overview
How does the TOF and Q-TOF system help you do your job? 10
Help for applications 11
Help for data acquisition 11
Help for data analysis 13
How do different ion sources work? 16
Electrospray ionization (ESI) and Dual ESI 17
Dual Agilent Jet Stream Electrospray Ionization (Dual AJS ESI) 21
Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) 22
Atmospheric pressure photoionization (APPI) 24
Multimode ionization (MMI) 25
HPLC-Chip 27
How does the Agilent TOF and Q-TOF mass spectrometer work? 28
Innovative Enhancements in the 6540 and 6538 Q-TOF 33
Innovative Enhancements in the 6530 Q-TOF 35
Agilent Jet Stream Thermal Gradient Technology 36
Front-end ion optics 38
This chapter provides an overview of the Agilent 6200 Series
TOF LC/MS and Agilent 6500 Series Q-TOF LC/MS systems and
the system components and how they work together to help you
get your job done.