Automation and Control of an Imaging Internal Laser Desorption Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer (I2LD-FTMS)

Journal Article · Sat Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 2002 · Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation (JALA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1535-5535(04)00199-6· OSTI ID:912018

McJunkin, Timothy R; Tranter, Troy Joseph; Scott, Jill Rennee

This paper describes the automation of an imaging internal source laser desorption Fourier transform mass spectrometer (I2LD-FTMS). The I2LD-FTMS consists of a laser-scanning device [Scott and Tremblay, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 2002, 73, 1108–1116] that has been integrated with a laboratory-built FTMS using a commercial data acquisition system (ThermoFinnigan FT/MS, Bremen, Germany). A new user interface has been developed in National Instrument's (Austin, Texas) graphical programming language LabVIEW to control the motors of the laser positioning system and the commercial FTMS data acquisition system. A feature of the FTMS software that allows the user to write macros in a scripting language is used creatively to our advantage in creating a mechanism to control the FTMS from outside its graphical user interface. The new user interface also allows the user to configure target locations. Automation of the data analysis along with data display using commercial graphing software is also described.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-99ID13727
• OSTI ID: 912018
• Report Number(s): INEEL/JOU-02-00337
• Journal Information: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation (JALA), Journal Name: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation (JALA) Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 7
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
AUTOMATION
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
DATA ANALYSIS
DESORPTION
FOURIER TRANSFORM MASS SPECTROMETER
FTMS
IMAGING
LASER DESORPTION
LASERS
MASS SPECTROMETERS
MOTORS
POSITIONING
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
TARGETS