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Flight time based mass microscope system for ultra high-speed multi mode mass analysis

a multi-mode, mass microscope technology, applied in mass spectrometers, separation processes, dispersed particle separation, etc., can solve the problem that the above-mentioned technologies still have the equipment has a low-throughput measurement speed limitation, and the limitation of measuring speed cannot be overcome. the limitation of measuring speed, the effect of increasing the measuring speed

Active Publication Date: 2014-07-03
KOREA RES INST OF STANDARDS & SCI
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The present invention is a time-of-flight based mass microscope system that can achieve ultra-high speed multi-mode mass analysis. It is capable of measuring the surface of biotissues and biochips with a speed of 100 times faster compared to existing technologies. It can measure samples ranging from low molecular weight analysis to high molecular weight analysis such as genes and proteins. The system can also provide new clinical diagnostic environments and information, creating a medical diagnostic industry and improving life quality and global competitiveness. The system can also be used for early diagnosis of diseases, personalized medicine, and reducing new medicine screening costs. Overall, the system has significant effects in advancing biomarker discovery and new drug discovery.

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As described above, at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, the microprobe mode MALDI imaging equipment having a micron level of spatial resolution (hereinafter, referred to as Prior Art 1) was manufactured and applied to an mass imaging of various bio samples; however, the equipment has a low-throughput having a limitation in a measuring speed as described in the above description, which may be possibly be utilized at a R&D research facility rather than in a hospital or a health examination center.
However, the above-mentioned technologies still have a low-throughput due to limitation in the measuring speed since an imaging measurement is performed in a microprobe mode).
However, the above-described equipments according to the Prior Arts or the MALDI imaging research currently conducted by world's leading research groups (including US Caprioli, and the like) and national research groups (including Konkuk University) has actual spatial resolution of merely about 30 to 50 μm or does not still overcome the limitation in the measuring speed.
Therefore, since the measuring speed (1 sample / sec for MALDI-TOF, 0.01 sample / sec for TOF-SIMS) is too low to be used in hospital or a medical diagnostic system for health examination, the above-described equipment are merely used in R&D research but the utilization range thereof has a limitation.
In the above-described Prior Art 4, a micro level of spatial resolution imaging technology was secured and various technologies were introduced in order to increase the measuring speed; however, as shown in FIG. 1, since position sensitive detector (x, y) & mass gating (Δt) was used, mass range should be selected, such that a problem that mass analysis of an unknown sample is not capable of being performed still needs to be solved.
In addition, according to the above-described Prior Arts, molecules having a wide range of mass from low molecular weight to high molecular weight are not capable of being measured by one medical diagnostic equipment.
Therefore, measuring equipment needs to be changed depending on molecular weight, which is inconvenient for measuring work, and equipment purchasing cost becomes increased.

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[0041]100: Mass Microscope System[0042]110: laser input[0043]120: ion gun assembly[0044]130: sample inlet chamber[0045]131: sample inlet part[0046]140: sample plate[0047]150: sample plate manipulator[0048]160: charge-coupled device (CCD) camera[0049]170: source lens assembly[0050]180: linear mode position sensitive TOF detector[0051]190: reflectron mode position sensitive TOF detector[0052]50: ion optics assembly[0053]51: ion optics[0054]52: source assembly support[0055]53: mounting plate[0056]54: ground electric field shielding tube[0057]55: ion gate[0058]56: reflectron support[0059]57: reflectron[0060]511: outer extractor[0061]512: first inner extractor[0062]513: insulating spacer[0063]514: second inner extractor[0064]515: insulating spacer[0065]516: first ground electrode[0066]517: einzel lens[0067]518: second ground electrode

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[0068]Hereinafter, a time-of-flight based mass microscope system 100 for ultra-high speed multi-mode mass analysis according to the present inventi...

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The present invention aims to provide a time-of-flight based mass microscope system for an ultra-high speed multi-mode mass analysis, for using a laser beam or an ion beam simultaneously to enable both a low molecular weight analysis such as for drugs / metabolome / lipids / peptides and a high molecular weight analysis such as for genes / proteins, without being limited by the molecular weight of the object being analyzed, and for significantly increasing the measuring speed by using a microscope method instead of a microprobe method.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a time-of-flight (TOF) based mass microscope system for an ultra-high speed multi-mode mass analysis.[0002]Most mass spectrometer [MALDI-TOF and time-of flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy (TOF-SIMS)] using a mass analysis method based on a time-of-flight (TOF) have been currently used in a microprobe mode at the time of analyzing a sample surface. However, as technologies in various fields are rapidly developed, limitation in a subject to be analyzed in the mass spectrometer or limitation in an analysis speed is a setback for a study. That is, a mass spectrometer capable of currently achieving a wide range of analysis from a low molecular weight mass analysis such as a drug to a high molecular weight mass analysis such as proteins and simultaneously and rapidly measuring by 100 times or more as compared to existing mass analysis devices has been demanded.[0003]A detailed description thereof will be provided below. A digitaliz...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H01J49/00H01J49/40
CPCH01J49/0004H01J49/406H01J49/40H01J49/142H01J49/164H01J49/0418H01J49/067H01J49/408
Inventor MOON, JEONG HEEMOON, DAE WONLEE, TAE GEOLYOON, SOHEEKIM, JU HWANG
Owner KOREA RES INST OF STANDARDS & SCI
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