AXIMA Assurance - Features
Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer
Key Performance Features
High Performance Mass Detection
- Near-axis laser irradiation with a 50Hz variable repetition rate N2 laser
 - Positive and negative ion modes as standard
 - Ion gate – used as beam blanker to remove unwanted low mass ions
 - Mass resolution >5000 FWHM
 - Sensitivity – 250 amol Glu-fibrinopeptide
 - Mass accuracy < 30ppm
 - Mass range 1–500kDa
 - Flexible target formats - ranging from 48 well microscope slide format targets to 384 well microtitre plate targets
 
Find out more of the key features and benefits
Ideally suited for high throughput QA/QC application areas, for example
- Oligonucleotides/primers
 - Synthetic peptides/proteins
 - Polymer analysis
 - Small molecules
 
Application areas include
- Protein profiling
 - Biomarker discovery
 - Single nucleotide polymorphisms