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US 2019/0295834 A1Published application
Mass spectrometry imaging
AssigneeMicromass UK Limited
InventorsSteven Derek Pringle, Emrys Jones, Stephen O'Brien, Anthony Hesse, Mike Morris, Zoltan Takats
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Abstract
There is provided an apparatus comprising a first ion source (10) arranged and adapted to emit a spray of charged droplets (11), and a control system arranged and adapted to control one or more spatial properties of said spray of charged droplets (11) in use by automatically varying or adjusting one or more parameters of said first ion source.
Claims17
An apparatus comprising:
- a first ion source arranged and adapted to emit a spray of charged droplets;
- and
- a control system arranged and adapted to control one or more spatial properties of said spray of charged droplets in use by automatically varying or adjusting one or more parameters of said first ion source.
A method comprising:
- using a first ion source to emit a spray of charged droplets;
- and
- controlling one or more spatial properties of said spray of charged droplets by automatically varying or adjusting one or more parameters of said first ion source.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.