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This is a compilation of initialisms and acronyms commonly used in mass spectrometry.

Contents

A

  • ADI – Ambient desorption ionization
  • AE – Appearance energy
  • AFADESI – Air flow-assisted desorption electrospray ionization
  • AFAI – Air flow-assisted ionization
  • AFAPA – Aerosol flowing atmospheric-pressure afterglow
  • AGHIS – All-glass heated inlet system
  • AIRLAB – Ambient infrared laser ablation
  • AMS – Accelerator mass spectrometry
  • AMS – Aerosol mass spectrometer
  • AMU – Atomic mass unit
  • AP – Appearance potential
  • AP MALDI – Atmospheric pressure matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization
  • APCI – Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization
  • API – Atmospheric pressure ionization
  • APPI – Atmospheric pressure photoionization
  • ASAP – Atmospheric Sample Analysis Probe
  • ASMS – American Society for Mass Spectrometry

B

  • BP – Base peak
  • BIRD – Blackbody infrared radiative dissociation

C

  • CRF – Charge remote fragmentation
  • CSR – Charge stripping reaction
  • CI – Chemical ionization
  • CA – Collisional activation
  • CAD – Collisionally activated dissociation
  • CID – Collision-induced dissociation
  • CRM – Consecutive reaction monitoring
  • CF-FAB – Continuous flow fast atom bombardment
  • CRIMS – Chemical reaction interface mass spectrometry
  • CTD – Charge transfer dissociation

D

  • DE – Delayed extraction
  • DADI – Direct analysis of daughter ions
  • DAPPI – Desorption atmospheric pressure photoionization
  • DEP – Direct exposure probe
  • DESI – Desorption electrospray ionization
  • DIOS – Desorption/ionization on silicon
  • DIP – Direct insertion probe
  • DART – Direct analysis in real time
  • DLI – Direct liquid introduction
  • DIA – Data independent acquisition

E

  • EA – Electron affinity
  • EAD – Electron-activated dissociation
  • ECD – Electron-capture dissociation
  • ECI – Electron capture ionization
  • EDD – Electron-detachment dissociation
  • EI – Electron ionization (or electron impact)
  • EJMS – European Journal of Mass Spectrometry
  • ESA – Electrostatic energy analyzer
  • ES/ESI – Electrospray ionisation
  • ETD – Electron-transfer dissociation
  • eV – Electronvolt

F

  • FAIMS – High-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry
  • FAB – Fast atom bombardment
  • FIB – Fast ion bombardment
  • FD – Field desorption
  • FFR – Field-free region
  • FI – Field ionization
  • FT-ICR MS – Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer
  • FTMS – Fourier transform mass spectrometer

G

  • GDMS – Glow discharge mass spectrometry

H

  • HDX – Hydrogen/deuterium exchange
  • HCD – Higher-energy C-trap dissociation

I

  • ICAT – Isotope-coded affinity tag
  • ICP – Inductively coupled plasma
  • ICRMS – Ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer
  • IDMS – Isotope dilution mass spectrometry
  • IJMS – International Journal of Mass Spectrometry
  • IRMPD – Infrared multiphoton dissociation
  • IKES – Ion kinetic energy spectrometry
  • IMS – Ion mobility spectrometry
  • IMSC – International Mass Spectrometry Conference
  • IMSF – International Mass Spectrometry Foundation
  • IRMS – Isotope ratio mass spectrometry
  • IT – Ion trap
  • ITMS – Ion trap mass spectrometry
  • ITMS – Ion trap mobility spectrometry
  • iTRAQ – Isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantitation

J

  • JASMS – Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
  • JEOL – Japan Electro-Optics Laboratory
  • JMS – Journal of Mass Spectrometry

K

  • KER – Kinetic energy release
  • KERD – Kinetic energy release distribution

L

  • LCMS – Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry
  • LD – Laser desorption
  • LDI – Laser desorption ionization
  • LI – Laser ionization
  • LMMS – Laser microprobe mass spectrometry
  • LIT – Linear ion trap
  • LSI – Liquid secondary ionization
  • LSII – Laserspray ionization inlet

M

  • MIKES – Mass-analyzed ion kinetic energy spectrometry
  • MS – Mass spectrometer
  • MS – Mass spectrometry
  • MS – Mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry, i.e. tandem mass spectrometry
  • MS/MS – Mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry, i.e. tandem mass spectrometry
  • MALDESI – Matrix-assisted laser desorption electrospray ionization
  • MALDI – Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization
  • MAII – Matrix-assisted inlet ionization
  • MAIV – Matrix-assisted ionization vacuum
  • MIMS – Membrane introduction mass spectrometry, membrane inlet mass spectrometry, membrane interface mass spectrometry
  • MCP – Microchannel plate
  • MS – Multiple-stage mass spectrometry
  • MCP – Microchannel plate
  • MPI – Multiphoton ionization
  • MRM – Multiple reaction monitoring

N

  • NEMS-MS – Nanoelectromechanical systems mass spectrometry
  • NETD – Negative electron-transfer dissociation
  • NICI – Negative ion chemical ionization
  • NRMS – Neutralization reionization mass spectrometry

O

  • oa-TOF – Orthogonal acceleration time of flight
  • OMS – Organic Mass Spectrometry (journal)

P

  • PDI – Plasma desorption/ionization
  • PDMS – Plasma desorption mass spectrometry
  • PAD – Post-acceleration detector
  • PSD – Post-source decay
  • PyMS – Pyrolysis mass spectrometry

Q

  • QUISTOR – Quadrupole ion storage trap
  • QIT – Quadrupole ion trap
  • QMS – Quadrupole mass spectrometer
  • QTOF – Quadrupole time of flight

R

  • RCM – Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
  • REIMS – Rapid evaporative ionization mass spectrometry
  • REMPI – Resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization
  • RGA – Residual gas analyzer
  • RI – Resonance ionization

S

  • SAII – Solvent-assisted ionization inlet
  • SELDI – Surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization
  • SESI – Secondary electrospray ionization
  • SHRIMP – Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe
  • SIFT – Selected ion flow tube
  • SILAC – Stable isotope labelling by amino acids in cell culture
  • SIM – Selected ion monitoring
  • SIMS – Secondary ion mass spectrometry
  • SIR – Selected ion recording
  • SNMS – Secondary neutral mass spectrometry
  • SRM – Selected reaction monitoring
  • SWIFT – Stored waveform inverse Fourier transform
  • SID – Surface-induced dissociation
  • SIR – Surface-induced reaction
  • SI – Surface ionization
  • SORI – Sustained off-resonance irradiation

T

  • TI – Thermal ionization
  • TIC – Total ion current
  • TICC – Total ion current chromatogram
  • TLF – Time-lag focusing
  • TMT – Tandem mass tags
  • TOF-MS – Time-of-flight mass spectrometer

V

  • VG – Vacuum Generators (company)

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