Organic acidurias are a wide group of inherited metabolic diseases, sometimes with acute neonatal symptoms and life risk in the newborn. The clinical features are often not specific, but the pattern of urinary organic acids is diagnostic. Correct identification of metabolites and timely response are
Automated Extraction of Pure Mass Spectra from Gas Chromatographic/Mass Spectrometric Data†
✍ Scribed by Pool, Wim G.; de Leeuw, Jan W.; van de Graaf, Bastiaan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 347 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1076-5174
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
An algorithm is described that extracts pure mass spectra from gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric (GC/MS) data. It is based on backfolding, a method described previously to enhance chromatographic resolution in GC/MS data. The ability to extract pure mass spectra was evaluated with both simulated and real GC/MS data and the algorithm was compared with two other methods described recently. It is shown that the algorithm presented gives good results, even when the chromatographic resolution is poor and the spectra are very similar. No a priori knowledge concerning the composition of the data is required.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
A novel automatic system has been developed for the rapid solid-extraction and derivatization of different drugs and their metabolites from urine, prior to further analysis. Manual injection of underivatized/derivatized drugs in a GC/MS system, in which the quadrupole mass filter was operated conven