Advances in the use of mass spectral libraries for forensic toxicology.

نویسندگان

  • Beat Aebi
  • Werner Bernhard
چکیده

Gas chromatography in combination with mass spectrometry (GC-MS) plays an important role in the field of analytical toxicology. The identification of unknown compounds is very frequently undertaken with GC-MS and utilizing mass spectral libraries. Currently available libraries for analytical toxicology were compared for overlapping and uniqueness of their entries. Furthermore, the widely known Pfleger-Maurer-Weber-Drugs-and-Pesticides-Library for toxicology (PMW_tox2) was used to compare the search algorithms PBM (Probability Based Matching, Agilent Technologies), INCOS (Finnigan/Thermoquest), and MassLib (Max Planck Institute). To our knowledge, direct comparisons of mass spectral libraries and search programs for analytical toxicology have not been published previously. The capabilities and necessities of modern MS technology in the field of general unknown analysis are revealed, and some of the potential pitfalls are described.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of analytical toxicology

دوره 26 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002