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High sensitivity is important in the mass spectrometry of biomolecules since many of them are available only in very small quantities. A time-of-flight mass spectrometer has the advantage that ions of all masses are detected at the same time, without scanning; also the instrument transmission is usually high. The recent introduction of ion mirrors in these instruments has improved their resolution and enabled measurements of daughter ions from metastable decay [1].
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Tang, X., Ens, W., Poppe-Schriemer, N., Standing, K.G. (1991). Sensitivity Measurements for Parent and Daughter Ions of Peptides in a Reflecting Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer. In: Standing, K.G., Ens, W. (eds) Methods and Mechanisms for Producing Ions from Large Molecules. NATO ASI Series, vol 269. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7926-3_18
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