Instrument Database:
Shimadzu Europe - AXIMA Assurance - MALDI
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Year of introduction |
2008 |
Status |
available |
Company |
Shimadzu Europe
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Categories |
Mass spectrometer: MALDI |
AXIMA Assurance High Performance Mass Detection - Linear MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for reliable mass information.
- An affordable, robust option for all laboratories requiring routine manual or automated analysis of a wide variety of sample classes.
- High sensitivity system using a variable repetition rate 50 Hz N2 laser and a variety of target formats to meet all sample throughput requirements.
Key benefits and features 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
- Tissue imaging
- Biomarker discovery
- Single nucleotide polymorphisms
Key Performance Features - 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
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