List of mass spectrometry acronyms

This is a compilation of initialisms and acronyms commonly used in mass spectrometry.

A

 * ADI – Ambient desorption ionization
 * AE – Appearance energy
 * AFADESI – Air flow-assisted desorption electrospray ionization
 * AFAI – Air flow-assisted ionization
 * AFAPA – Aerosol flowing atmospheric-pressure afterglow
 * AGHIS – All-glass heated inlet system
 * AIRLAB – Ambient infrared laser ablation
 * AMS – Accelerator mass spectrometry
 * AMS – Aerosol mass spectrometer
 * AMU – Atomic mass unit
 * AP – Appearance potential
 * AP MALDI – Atmospheric pressure matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization
 * APCI – Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization
 * API – Atmospheric pressure ionization
 * APPI – Atmospheric pressure photoionization
 * ASAP – Atmospheric Sample Analysis Probe
 * ASMS – American Society for Mass Spectrometry

B

 * BP – Base peak
 * BIRD – Blackbody infrared radiative dissociation

C

 * CRF – Charge remote fragmentation
 * CSR – Charge stripping reaction
 * CI – Chemical ionization
 * CA – Collisional activation
 * CAD – Collisionally activated dissociation
 * CID – Collision-induced dissociation
 * CRM – Consecutive reaction monitoring
 * CF-FAB – Continuous flow fast atom bombardment
 * CRIMS – Chemical reaction interface mass spectrometry
 * CTD – Charge transfer dissociation

D

 * DE – Delayed extraction
 * DADI – Direct analysis of daughter ions
 * DAPPI – Desorption atmospheric pressure photoionization
 * DEP – Direct exposure probe
 * DESI – Desorption electrospray ionization
 * DIOS – Desorption/ionization on silicon
 * DIP – Direct insertion probe
 * DART – Direct analysis in real time
 * DLI – Direct liquid introduction
 * DIA – Data independent acquisition

E

 * EA – Electron affinity
 * EAD – Electron-activated dissociation
 * ECD – Electron-capture dissociation
 * ECI – Electron capture ionization
 * EDD – Electron-detachment dissociation
 * EI – Electron ionization (or electron impact)
 * EJMS – European Journal of Mass Spectrometry
 * ESA – Electrostatic energy analyzer
 * ES/ESI – Electrospray ionisation
 * ETD – Electron-transfer dissociation
 * eV – Electronvolt

F

 * FAIMS – High-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry
 * FAB – Fast atom bombardment
 * FIB – Fast ion bombardment
 * FD – Field desorption
 * FFR – Field-free region
 * FI – Field ionization
 * FT-ICR MS – Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer
 * FTMS – Fourier transform mass spectrometer

G

 * GDMS – Glow discharge mass spectrometry

H

 * HDX – Hydrogen/deuterium exchange
 * HCD – Higher-energy C-trap dissociation

I

 * ICAT – Isotope-coded affinity tag
 * ICP – Inductively coupled plasma
 * ICRMS – Ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer
 * IDMS – Isotope dilution mass spectrometry
 * IJMS – International Journal of Mass Spectrometry
 * IRMPD – Infrared multiphoton dissociation
 * IKES – Ion kinetic energy spectrometry
 * IMS – Ion mobility spectrometry
 * IMSC – International Mass Spectrometry Conference
 * IMSF – International Mass Spectrometry Foundation
 * IRMS – Isotope ratio mass spectrometry
 * IT – Ion trap
 * ITMS – Ion trap mass spectrometry
 * ITMS – Ion trap mobility spectrometry
 * iTRAQ – Isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantitation

J

 * JASMS – Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
 * JEOL – Japan Electro-Optics Laboratory
 * JMS – Journal of Mass Spectrometry

K

 * KER – Kinetic energy release
 * KERD – Kinetic energy release distribution

L

 * LCMS – Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry
 * LD – Laser desorption
 * LDI – Laser desorption ionization
 * LI – Laser ionization
 * LMMS – Laser microprobe mass spectrometry
 * LIT – Linear ion trap
 * LSI – Liquid secondary ionization
 * LSII – Laserspray ionization inlet

M

 * MIKES – Mass-analyzed ion kinetic energy spectrometry
 * MS – Mass spectrometer
 * MS – Mass spectrometry
 * MS2 – Mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry, i.e. tandem mass spectrometry
 * MS/MS – Mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry, i.e. tandem mass spectrometry
 * MALDESI – Matrix-assisted laser desorption electrospray ionization
 * MALDI – Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization
 * MAII – Matrix-assisted inlet ionization
 * MAIV – Matrix-assisted ionization vacuum
 * MIMS – Membrane introduction mass spectrometry, membrane inlet mass spectrometry, membrane interface mass spectrometry
 * MCP – Microchannel plate
 * MSn – Multiple-stage mass spectrometry
 * MCP – Microchannel plate
 * MPI – Multiphoton ionization
 * MRM – Multiple reaction monitoring

N

 * NEMS-MS – Nanoelectromechanical systems mass spectrometry
 * NETD – Negative electron-transfer dissociation
 * NICI – Negative ion chemical ionization
 * NRMS – Neutralization reionization mass spectrometry

O

 * oa-TOF – Orthogonal acceleration time of flight
 * OMS – Organic Mass Spectrometry (journal)

P

 * PDI – Plasma desorption/ionization
 * PDMS – Plasma desorption mass spectrometry
 * PAD – Post-acceleration detector
 * PSD – Post-source decay
 * PyMS – Pyrolysis mass spectrometry

Q

 * QUISTOR – Quadrupole ion storage trap
 * QIT – Quadrupole ion trap
 * QMS – Quadrupole mass spectrometer
 * QTOF – Quadrupole time of flight

R

 * RCM – Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
 * REIMS – Rapid evaporative ionization mass spectrometry
 * REMPI – Resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization
 * RGA – Residual gas analyzer
 * RI – Resonance ionization

S

 * SAII – Solvent-assisted ionization inlet
 * SELDI – Surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization
 * SESI – Secondary electrospray ionization
 * SHRIMP – Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe
 * SIFT – Selected ion flow tube
 * SILAC – Stable isotope labelling by amino acids in cell culture
 * SIM – Selected ion monitoring
 * SIMS – Secondary ion mass spectrometry
 * SIR – Selected ion recording
 * SNMS – Secondary neutral mass spectrometry
 * SRM – Selected reaction monitoring
 * SWIFT – Stored waveform inverse Fourier transform
 * SID – Surface-induced dissociation
 * SIR – Surface-induced reaction
 * SI – Surface ionization
 * SORI – Sustained off-resonance irradiation

T

 * TI – Thermal ionization
 * TIC – Total ion current
 * TICC – Total ion current chromatogram
 * TLF – Time-lag focusing
 * TMT – Tandem mass tags
 * TOF-MS – Time-of-flight mass spectrometer

V

 * VG – Vacuum Generators (company)