AXIMA Assurance | MALDI Floor Standing Instrument
The Shimadzu AXIMA Assurance a 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.
AXIMA Assurance overview
- 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.
AXIMA Assurance 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
High performance mass detection aplications
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