Bruker Brings Exceptional High Performance Single and Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry to Gas Chromatographers with the Release of the SCION Series
By Kapler Communications Ltd, PRNESunday, July 17, 2011
ST. PETE BEACH, Florida, July 18, 2011 -
At the 2011 Florida Pesticide Residue Workshop, Bruker today
announced the release the SCION TQ™ triple quadrupole
and the SCION SQ™ single quadrupole mass
spectrometers for gas chromatography (GC) detection. Designed
especially to enhance data quality and productivity for analysts
working in routine testing and applied markets, these systems
combine performance and value like never before in GC-MS. The
SCION GC-MS platform offers
revolutionary performance and ease of use, particularly for the
food safety and environment monitoring communities, and represent
an innovation leap in GC-MS technology.
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The SCION series features the industry’s first ion
‘lens-free’ technology which makes these systems very easy to use,
regardless of the level of mass spectrometry experience of the
operator. The new SCION series is also significantly
more sensitive and robust than previous GC-MS instruments, and
comes in a very compact bench space saving footprint that is far
smaller than for conventional GC-triple quadrupole MS systems.
The advanced axial source design combined with the unique
‘lens-free’ ion path also significantly enhance the overall
robustness of the SCION series. The SCION
TQ also incorporates a 180-degree collision cell design for
a dramatically smaller instrument footprint; a critical need in
emerging markets and for anyone choosing to upgrade their GC-MS
technology.
Further enhancing the exceptional performance and value of the
SCION TQ is Bruker’s innovative and unique
Compound Based Scanning (CBS) technology. Ideal for
the automation and optimization of quantitative analytical methods,
CBS allows users to achieve high levels of
sensitivity and quantitative precision while greatly reducing
methods development and instrument set up time. By simply
selecting the compounds from the compound library to add to the
method editor, the unique CBS technology and expert
software automatically sets up optimized MRM transmissions, and
calculates the optimum cycle time, at a fraction of the workload
for the method’s developer.
“With our unique Compound Based Scanning
technology, we have finally taken a lot of the mystery and
inefficiencies out of triple quads and MRM method development,”
stated Meredith Conoley, GC-MS Markets Manager for Bruker’s
Chemical & Applied Markets (CAM) division. “We believe that the
SCION GC-triple quad system offers game-changing new
technology, performance and productivity to gas chromatographers in
the most compact triple quad on the market.”
The SCION SQ has been designed for extensive
routine usage and shares many of the design innovations of the
SCION TQ. This includes a plug-and-play source for
simple maintenance, or easy conversion from EI to CI operation. The
new axial flow source improves systems performance, and lengthens
the time between maintenance, even when handling today’s
challenging matrices.
Both SCION systems feature an auto-focusing q0 ion
optic element that uses helium molecules to enhance transmission
into the first resolving quadrupole, and a high-capacity
turbomolecular pump - to enable users to field-upgrade to CI
capability. A further benefit of the SCION series is
the extremely fast pump-down time, which increases productivity and
reduces down-time. Unique multi-axis chemical noise cancelling
design techniques, such as the 90-degree heated curved q0, the
180-degree collision cell and orthogonal integrated detectors,
result in virtually zero neutral noise and ultra-sensitive
detection limits.
Collin D’Silva, President of Bruker’s Chemical & Applied
Markets division, commented: “The SCION GC-MS
platform represent the fusion of rich histories of innovation and
reliability to extend the high performance traditionally associated
with research-grade instruments into a next-generation series of
GC-MS instruments for routine use, ensuring that all gas
chromatographers can benefit from these advances.”
“The SCION TQ is a revolutionary GC
triple-quadrupole system that offers best-in-class triple-quad
sensitivity and selectivity to the gas chromatographer in a system
that is as compact, easy-to-use and robust as single quads,”
concluded Dr. Rohan Thakur, General Manager of Bruker CAM’s GC-MS
business. ”We believe that the SCION TQ will
lead and greatly accelerate the inevitable change-over of the GC-MS
market to GC-triple quad technology to deal with today’s ever more
challenging analytical problems and matrices in environmental,
forensics, doping and food safety applications.”
For more information on the new SCION
SQ and SCION TQ systems, please visit:
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Kapler Communications
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About Bruker Corporation
Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) is a leading provider of
high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for molecular
and materials research, as well as for industrial, clinical and
applied analysis. For more information, please visit
Media Contacts: Darwin Asa, Ph.D., Bruker Daltonics Marketing Manager, T: +1(978)663-3660, ext. 1149, E: dja at bdal.com; Richard Kent, Director, Kapler Communications, Cell: +44(0)7968-950122, T: +44(0)1480-470280, richard at kapleronline.com
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