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A new type of mass analyzer is described, which allows lowresolution axial ion ejection to be obtained from a traveling wave based, stacked ring collision cell. Linking this ejection temporally with the scanning of the second quadrupole of a tandem quadrupole mass spectrometer provides an improvement in sampling duty cycle, which results in significant signal intensity improvements for scanning acquisitions such as product ion spectra. A near 100% storage efficiency is enabled by a split cell design, which allows ion fragmentation and accumulation to be performed in one section of the collision cell whilst previously accumulated ions are simultaneously ejected from the rear of the cell. These characteristics combine to give an m/z-dependent signal gain of 7–20X over a conventional scanning quadrupole for a 1000 Th scan. The ability to swap very rapidly from a non-enhanced mode of operation to an enhanced mode whilst retaining the existing sensitivity, speed, and functionality of a conventional tandem quadrupole mass spectrometer is also described.
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Kenny, D.J., Worthington, K.R. & Hoyes, J.B. Scanwave: A new approach to enhancing spectral data on a tandem quadrupole mass spectrometer. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 21, 1061–1069 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasms.2010.02.017
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