Bruker Brings Exceptional High Performance Single & Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry to Gas Chromatographers with the Rele...
July 18 2011 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
At the 2011 Florida Pesticide Residue Workshop, Bruker today
announced the release of the SCION TQ™ triple quadrupole and
the SCION SQ™ single quadrupole mass spectrometers for gas
chromatography (GC) detection. Designed especially to enhance data
quality and productivity for analysts working in routine testing
and applied markets, these systems combine performance and value
like never before in GC-MS. The SCION GC-MS platform offers
revolutionary performance and ease of use, particularly for the
food safety and environment monitoring communities, and represent
an innovation leap in GC-MS technology.
Scion TQ GC-MS. (Photo: Business
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The SCION series features the industry’s first ion
‘lens-free’ technology which makes these systems very easy to use,
regardless of the level of mass spectrometry experience of the
operator. The new SCION series is also significantly more
sensitive and robust than previous GC-MS instruments, and comes in
a very compact bench space saving footprint that is far smaller
than for conventional GC-triple quadrupole MS systems.
The advanced axial source design combined with the unique
‘lens-free’ ion path also significantly enhance the overall
robustness of the SCION series. The SCION TQ also
incorporates a 180-degree collision cell design for a dramatically
smaller instrument footprint; a critical need in emerging markets
and for anyone choosing to upgrade their GC-MS technology.
Further enhancing the exceptional performance and value of the
SCION TQ is Bruker’s innovative and unique Compound Based
Scanning (CBS) technology. Ideal for the automation and
optimization of quantitative analytical methods, CBS allows
users to achieve high levels of sensitivity and quantitative
precision while greatly reducing methods development and instrument
set up time. By simply selecting the compounds from the compound
library to add to the method editor, the unique CBS
technology and expert software automatically sets up optimized MRM
transmissions, and calculates the optimum cycle time, at a fraction
of the workload for the method’s developer.
“With our unique Compound Based Scanning technology, we
have finally taken a lot of the mystery and inefficiencies out of
triple quads and MRM method development,” stated Meredith Conoley,
GC-MS Markets Manager for Bruker’s Chemical & Applied Markets
(CAM) division. “We believe that the SCION GC-triple quad
system offers game-changing new technology, performance and
productivity to gas chromatographers in the most compact triple
quad on the market.”
The SCION SQ has been designed for extensive routine
usage and shares many of the design innovations of the SCION
TQ. This includes a plug-and-play source for simple
maintenance, or easy conversion from EI to CI operation. The new
axial flow source improves systems performance, and lengthens the
time between maintenance, even when handling today’s challenging
matrices.
Both SCION systems feature an auto-focusing q0 ion optic
element that uses helium molecules to enhance transmission into the
first resolving quadrupole, and a high-capacity turbomolecular pump
– to enable users to field-upgrade to CI capability. A further
benefit of the SCION series is the extremely fast pump-down
time, which increases productivity and reduces down-time. Unique
multi-axis chemical noise cancelling design techniques, such as the
90-degree heated curved q0, the 180-degree collision cell and
orthogonal integrated detectors, result in virtually zero neutral
noise and ultra-sensitive detection limits.
Collin D’Silva, President of Bruker’s Chemical & Applied
Markets division, commented: “The SCION GC-MS platform
represent the fusion of rich histories of innovation and
reliability to extend the high performance traditionally associated
with research-grade instruments into a next-generation series of
GC-MS instruments for routine use, ensuring that all gas
chromatographers can benefit from these advances.”
“The SCION TQ is a revolutionary GC triple-quadrupole
system that offers best-in-class triple-quad sensitivity and
selectivity to the gas chromatographer in a system that is as
compact, easy-to-use and robust as single quads,” concluded Dr.
Rohan Thakur, General Manager of Bruker CAM’s GC-MS business. “We
believe that the SCION TQ will lead and greatly accelerate
the inevitable change-over of the GC-MS market to GC-triple quad
technology to deal with today’s ever more challenging analytical
problems and matrices in environmental, forensics, doping and food
safety applications.”
For more information on the new SCION SQ and SCION
TQ systems, please visit: www.bruker.com/ms.
About Bruker Corporation
Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) is a leading provider of
high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for molecular
and materials research, as well as for industrial, clinical and
applied analysis. For more information, please visit
www.bruker.com.
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