Chapter 13:Development of Miniaturized MALDI Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometers for Homeland Security and Clinical Diagnostics

Practically every kind of mass analyzer has been subjected to miniaturized design of some form or another. Magnetic sector analyzers were used in the double-focusing and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) instruments designed by Alfred Nier and Klaus Biemann, respectively, in the two Vikin...