Time-of-Flight ICP - Mass Spectrometer (ToF-ICP-MS) Ghent University
ICP mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is the most powerful technique for the determination of elements at the (ultra)trace level. Most ICP-MS instruments are equipped with a quadrupole filter for mass analysis. With a quadrupole filter, the intensity for only one nuclide can be measured at any given time because at any given time only ions are transmitted within a narrow mass range (about half an atomic mass unit). For multi-element determination, scanning (continuous shifting of the mass window) or peak jumping (discontinuous shifting of the mass window) must be used. ToF-ICP-MS is a version of ...