Patent ID: 8680461

Claim:
A continuous sampling analysis method comprising: providing gas-phase samples to an analysis component configured as a mass spectrometer; configuring processing circuitry of the analysis component to acquire data according to a first analysis component parameter set; using the analysis component configured to acquire data according to the first analysis component parameter set, analyzing an earlier sample to acquire a first data set including analyte ion abundance; using the processing circuitry, processing the first data set to prepare a second analysis component parameter set, the processing comprising comparing the analyte ion abundance of the first data set to a predefined threshold analyte ion abundance and determining a difference between the analyte ion abundance of the first data set and the predefined threshold; configuring the processing circuitry of the analysis component to acquire data according to the second analysis component parameter set, the second analysis component parameter set being different from the first analysis component parameter set; and using the analysis component configured to acquire data according to the second analysis component parameter set, analyzing a later sample to acquire a second data set including analyte ion abundance.