List of mass spectrometry acronyms

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

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

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

E

EA – Electron affinity

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

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/MS – Mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry, i.e. tandem mass spectrometry

MALDI – Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization

MAII - Matrix assisted inlet ionization Inlet

MAIV - Matrix Assisted Ionization Vacuum

MIMS – Membrane introduction mass spectrometry, membrane inlet mass spectrometry, membrane interface mass spectrometry

MCP – Microchannel plate

MSⁿ – 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

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

R

RCM – Rapid Communications in 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

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

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)