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Inorganic Mass Spectrometers for Biochemical Samples
Laser ablation sampling technique combined with ICP-mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) has become one of the most sensitive and versatile analytical tool for elemental imaging for minerals, fossils or various biological tissue samples. Laser sampling under the atmospheric pressure conditions can provide high analytical capability to accept large-sized samples ranging from 10 μm to 25 mm with the optimum spatial resolutions. With the 75 μm laser beam, from major elements (e.g., C, Na or Ca) to trace-elements (e.g., Ni, Se or Mo) can be monitored. To take a full advantage of the quantitative imagings, we have developed new software to obtain the imaging data from the repeated line profiling analysis. With the present software, possible correlation among the analytes can be easily evaluated from only the specific area, or lines. Analytical features achieved by the combination of the LA-ICPMS technique and the present software will be demonstrated.