Brooks Applied Labs products

Brooks Applied Labs has an array of different analytical platforms to support the diverse needs of our clients and their projects.  One of the analytical platforms used at Brooks Applied Labs is the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer with dynamic reaction cell (DRC) technology (ICP-DRC-MS), to accurately determine arsenic, selenium, iron, chromium and various other elements with previously unattainable detection limits. With Dynamic Reaction Cell technology, most polyatomic interferences are reduced to near background levels resulting in dramatic improvements in detection limits and a reduction in biased results for nearly the entire periodic table.

Using ICP-CRC-MS, sample aliquots are first introduced into a high energy radio frequency plasma the cause desolvation, atomization, and ionization. The generated ion beam then travels through a collision reaction cell (CRC) which preferentially reacts either with interfering ions of the same target mass to charge ratios or with the target analyte, which can then be differentiated from the initial interferences. This chamber operates in two modes (reactive mode and collision mode).