New Software for Torion’s GC-TMS Instrument March 17, 2010 Torion Technologies Inc. introduces a new, PC-based software application, CHROMION-1, for its GUARDION-7 hand-portable capillary gas chromatograph-toroidal ion trap mass spectrometer (GC-TMS). With the GUARDION-7, a high speed GC is combined with a miniaturized toroidal ion trap mass spectrometer (TMS) in a lightweight, field-portable instrument that is fast, reliable and easy to operate. The capillary GC provides rapid, high resolution separation of analytes, while the TMS supports highly sensitive mass-based detection of a wide variety of compounds. The G-7 weighs <30 lbs, is the size of a brief case, operates on battery power, and has an on-board helium carrier gas cartridge.
Even though the GUARDION-7 GC-TMS operates as a standalone system during field operations, CHROMION-1 software allows the user to manage the instrument’s system functions using an Ethernet connection with a portable laptop computer. The software is smart, versatile and intuitive featuring method, calibration, and library functions for quick GC-TMS method editing, instrument calibration, and target compound library development. The data retriever function of the software facilitates rapid retrieval of GC-TMS data from the GUARDION-7 compact flash card for viewing and processing using Torion’s new CHROMION-AP software. Other third-party analytics software applications, such as Ion Signature IFD and MASSTransit, can also be accessed and used through the software.
The software is Windows based with intuitive menu bars and icons for quick navigation to the point-and-click selectable functions. The user is assisted by smart parameter entry of set-points for calibration, method and library functions for rapid method set-up and editing. For example, when a target ion mass is selected, the mass range window is automatically entered at + 0.5 amu, which can also be edited by the user. Most importantly, CHROMION-1 offers versatility to the GUARDION-7 GC-TMS user for optimizing instrument method parameters (e.g. GC temperature program rate or mass scan range) and for customizing the on-board target compound library used by the instrument for automated identification during sample analysis.
Source: Torion Technologies Inc.
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