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Title: Nanostructure-initiator mass spectrometry biometrics

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1214154

Several embodiments described herein are drawn to methods of identifying an analyte on a subject's skin, methods of generating a fingerprint, methods of determining a physiological change in a subject, methods of diagnosing health status of a subject, and assay systems for detecting an analyte and generating a fingerprint, by nanostructure-initiator mass spectrometry (NIMS).

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA)
Patent Number(s):
9,125,596
Application Number:
13/631,687
OSTI ID:
1214154
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2012 Sep 28
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (7)

Nanomanipulation coupled nanospray mass spectrometry (NMS) patent July 2014
Nanostructure-Initiator Mass Spectrometry patent-application June 2008
Detection of drugs and their metabolites in dusted latent fingermarks by mass spectrometry journal January 2009
Direct detection of peptides and small proteins in fingermarks and determination of sex by MALDI mass spectrometry profiling journal January 2012
Clathrate nanostructures for mass spectrometry journal October 2007
A nanostructure-initiator mass spectrometry-based enzyme activity assay journal March 2008
Nanostructure-initiator mass spectrometry: a protocol for preparing and applying NIMS surfaces for high-sensitivity mass analysis journal July 2008

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