Patent ID: 6524803
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: H01J

Abstract:
In a mass spectrometer system an automated method for analyzing a sample, said method comprising the steps of:selecting a deconvolution library, said deconvolution library comprising a plurality of compounds in a specific order, each said compound comprising compound data; comparing first compound data from said specific order with spectral pattern data from a mass spectrometer; removing a portion of said spectral pattern data if said first compound data of a first compound is substantially found in said spectral pattern data, thereby creating a remaining spectral pattern data; comparing next compound data from said specific order with said remaining spectral pattern data; removing a portion of said remaining spectral pattern data if said next compound data is substantially found in said remaining spectral pattern data; repeating said comparing a next compound data step and said removing a portion of said remaining spectral pattern data step until all said plurality of compounds have been compared in said specific compound order.