Patent ID: 7084395

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: an ion source for repetitively or continuously generating ions; an ion-fragmentation device fluidly coupled to said ion source to fragment at least a fraction of said ions; an ion extractor, fluidly coupled to said ion fragmentation device and extracting said ions and fragment ions; a time-of-flight mass spectrometer fluidly coupled to and accepting said ions and fragment ions from said ion extractor, a position sensitive ion detector fluidly coupled to said time-of-flight mass spectrometer to detect said ions and fragment ions; a timing controller in electronic communication with said ion source and said ion extractor said timing controller tracking and controlling the time of activation of said ion source and activating said ion extractor according to a predetermined sequence; and, a data processing unit for analyzing and presenting data said data processing unit in electronic communication with said ion source, said ion extractor, and said position sensitive ion detector.