40 Agilent 6400 Series Triple Quad LC/MS Concepts Guide
3 Agilent Triple Quadrupole MS and Sensitivity
How the Agilent Triple Quadrupole MS improves sensitivity
How the Agilent Triple Quadrupole MS improves sensitivity
Triple quadrupole mass spectrometers exhibit multiple sources
of noise, including noise from all chemical and cluster
backgrounds and electronic noise (Figure 17).
Noise reduction
The problem of noise must be addressed at several stages of
the instrumentation from the ion source (1) to the detector
(10) in Figure 17.