Neonatal Care: A Compendium of AAP Clinical Practice Guidelines and Policies

Contents......Page 9
1. Sample Preparation and Introduction......Page 13
Sample Introduction, Plasma-Sample Interactions, Ion Transport and Ion-Molecule Reactions: Fundamental Understanding and Practical Improvements in ICP-MS......Page 15
Microwave Digestion of Oils for Analysis of Platinum Group and Rare Earth Elements by ICP-MS......Page 29
USN-ICPMS: A Poor Man’s High Resolution......Page 37
The Characteristics of an Off-line Matrix Removal/Pre-concentration System which uses Controlled Pore Glass Iminodiacetate as a Reagent for Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry......Page 49
Moving to the Next Level: Sample Introduction and Plasma Interface Design for Improved Performance in ICP-MS......Page 57
2. Mass Analyser Instrumentation......Page 73
QMF Operation with Quadrupole Excitation......Page 75
All the Ions all the Time: Dream or Reality?......Page 85
Evaluation of Inductively Coupled Plasma-Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry......Page 102
3. Reaction Cells for ICP-MS......Page 109
Reaction Chemistry and Collisional Processes in Multipole Devices......Page 111
Ion-Molecule Reactions in Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry......Page 129
Ion-Molecule Chemistry Solutions to the ICP-MS Analytical Challenges......Page 142
A Reaction Mechanism for Solving the Oxide Problem in ICP-MS Analysis of the Noble Metals......Page 160
4. Applications......Page 175
Application and Quality of ICP-MS Analysis......Page 177
Trace Elements in Honey Samples by means of ETV-ICP-MS......Page 189
Determination of Trace Elements in Ice Core Samples by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry......Page 197
Rare Earth Element Concentrations for the Mobile-Alabama River Systems......Page 207
Application of ICP-MS to a Trace Elements Mass Balance Study in a Power Plant......Page 220
Determination of Mercury, Arsenic, Selenium and Antimony in Potable Water by ICP-MS......Page 228
Determination of Metals in Sewage and Industrial Waste Waters by ICP-MS in a Single Run......Page 242
5. Isotope Ratio Measurement......Page 255
The Performance of Commercial Mono-Elemental Solutions for High Accuracy Mass Spectrometry......Page 257
ICP-MS Applied to Isotope Abundance Ratio Measurements: Performance Study and Development of a Method for Combining Uncertainty Contributions from Measurement Correction Factors......Page 269
Comparison of MC-ICP-MS with Quadrupole ICP-MS for the Certification of the Amount, Content and Isotopic Composition of Enriched 206Pb and 203Tl Materials Using Isotope Dilution......Page 282
Which Way for Os? A Comparison of Plasma-Source Versus Negative Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometry for 0s Isotope Measurement......Page 291
Matrix-induced Isotopic Mass Fractionation in the ICP-MS......Page 300
Simultaneous Acquisition of Isotope Compositions and Parent/Daughter Ratios by Non-isotope Dilution-mode Plasma Ionisation Multi-collector Mass Spectrometry (PIMMS)......Page 310
Combined Pb-, Sr- and 0-Isotope Analysis of Human Dental Tissue for the Reconstruction of Archaeological Residential Mobility......Page 323
6. Speciation......Page 337
Isotope Dilution Analysis for Trace Metal Speciation......Page 339
Prediction of Inorganic Aqueous Speciation: A Useful Tool for ICP-MS and IC-ICP-MS Analysts......Page 359
Investigations into Biovolatilisation of Metal(loids) in the Environment by using GC-ICP-TOF-MS......Page 373
Time-of-Flight Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry for Ultratrace Speciation Analysis of Organometallic Compunds......Page 381
An Appetite for Arsenic The Seaweed Eating Sheep from Orkney......Page 392
Hyphenated IC-ICP-MS for the Determination of Arsenic Speciation in Acid Mine Drainage......Page 399
Selenium Speciation in Human Urine......Page 413
Sensitive Detection of Platinum-Bound DNA Using ICP-MS and Comparison to Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (GFAAS)......Page 424
Author Index......Page 431
Subject Index......Page 434