32 Agilent 6400 Series Triple Quad LC/MS Concepts Guide
2 Inner Workings – Triple Quadrupole MS versus Single Quadrupole MS
How Dynamic MRM works
For each individual transition, the DSP sends MS parameters
to the hardware in the form of address/data pairs.
4 MS Hardware
For each transition, the DSP address/data pair sets the
hardware quadrupoles and other parameters.
After the MS hardware parameters are set for each
transition, the MS takes an integrated abundance
measurement at the selected ion and sends the unfiltered
abundance data back to SmartCard firmware in the form of a
structure containing header and abundance information.