We discuss mini MS systems in terms of individual components and at a systems level.
Portable systems from academic and commercial laboratories are emphasized, but meso …

BACKGROUND One driving motivation in the development of point-of-care (POC)
diagnostics is to conveniently and immediately provide information upon which healthcare …

Recent advancements in the sensitivity of chemical instrumentation have led to increased
interest in the use of microsamples for translational and biomedical research. Paper …

Within this paper a sub-group of ambient ionization mass spectrometry namely direct
ionization mass spectrometry techniques are reviewed. They are characterized by the …

Ambient mass spectrometry refers to the family of techniques that allows ions to be
generated from condensed phase samples under ambient conditions and then, collected …

Sample preparation is the most common bottleneck in the analysis and processing of
forensic evidence. Time-consuming steps in many forensic tests involve complex …

Paper spray MS is part of a cohort of ambient ionization or direct analysis methods that seek
to analyze complex samples without prior sample preparation. Extraction and electrospray …

Paper spray mass spectrometry (PS-MS) combined with partial least squares discriminant
analysis (PLS-DA) was applied for the first time in a forensic context to a fast and effective …

Paper spray mass spectrometry is a method for the direct analysis of biofluid samples in
which extraction of analytes from dried biofluid spots and electrospray ionization occur from …

Introduction: Paper spray mass spectrometry has provided a rapid, quantitative ambient
ionization method for xenobiotic and biomolecule analysis. As an alternative to traditional …