Ion mobility spectrometry

Abstract

Ion mobility spectrometry was primarily developed for the fast, highly sensitive, cheap, and usually mobile detection and characterization of small and medium-sized organic compounds (Cohen and Karasek, 1970; Karasek, 1970; Caroll et al., 1971; Caroll, 1972; Cohen et al., 1972; Cohen and Crowe, 1973; Vora et al., 1987; St. Louis and Hill, 1990; Campbell et al., 1991; Burke, 1992; Eiceman and Karas, 1994; Taylor, 1996; Baumbach and Stach, 1998; Baumbach and Eiceman, 1999; Saurina and Hernandez-Cassou, 1999; Asbury and Hill, 2000; Purves et al., 2000; Wu et al., 2000; Beegle et al., 2001; Eiceman et al., 2001; Matz and Hill, 2001; Stone et al., 2001; Menéndez et al., 2008).