Abstract:
A device and a method are provided for isolating a fraction in a biological sample. The fraction is bound to solid phase substrate to define a fraction-bound solid phase substrate. The device includes an input zone for receiving the biological sample therein and a second zone for receiving an isolation fluid therein. A force is provided that is generally perpendicular to gravity. The force is movable between a first position adjacent the input zone and a second position adjacent the isolation zone. The force captures the fraction-bound solid phase substrate and the fraction-bound solid phase substrate moves from the input zone to the isolation zone in response to the force moving from the first position to the second position.
Abstract:
In a time of flight mass spectrometer (TOFMS) having a flight space in which ions fly in a loop orbit formed by a plurality of electric sector fields, the present invention provides a simple structure that creates a spiral path by deflecting the ions in the axial direction of the electric fields at every turn of the ions. In a mode of the present invention, the TOFMS has cylindrical electrodes 11 and 12 for creating electric sector fields E1 and E2, between which a parallel pair of planer magnetic poles 15a and 15b are provided. The planer magnetic poles 15a and 15b create a deflecting magnetic field B1 for shifting the ions in the axial direction (Y-direction) of the electric sector fields. The ions experience a Lorenz force once every turn when they pass through the deflecting magnetic field B1. This construction uses only one pair of magnetic poles facing each other across the ion path P to deflect every ion irrespective of its number of turns. There is no need to provide one deflector for each turn of the ions, as in the case of conventional TOFMSs.
Abstract:
The improved isotope separator comprises a vacuum vessel, a plasma generator located substantially in the center of the vacuum vessel, an electrode bounded by a hyperboloid of one sheet and a pair of electrodes bounded by a hyperboloid of two sheets, said electrodes being located within the vacuum vessel in such a way as to surround the plasma generator, a power source for supplying said electrodes with a fixed voltage and a pulsating voltage, and magnetic field generating means located outside the vacuum vessel. The apparatus is implemented by a method for isotope separation that achieves high separation factor per stage (process), that enables the process throughput to be increased with ease and which yet is applicable to the isotopic separation of many elements.
Abstract:
Device for isotope separation by ion cyclotron resonance (ICR). This device comprises a vertical enclosure (2), means (6) for producing a homogeneous, vertical magnetic field in said enclosure, a plasma source (8) for producing in the central part of the enclosure an ion plasma of the isotope to be separated, means (10) for producing in the enclosure an electric field perpendicular to the magnetic field and oscillating at the ion cyclotron frequency of the isotope to be separated, which is adjusted as a function of the mass of said isotope, collection means (12) for recovering a mixture which is enriched and a mixture which is depleted with said isotope. The plasma source comprises a container (14) containing the element (20), whose isotope is to be separated and means (18) for ionizing atoms of the element. Application to the separation of the isotopes of gadolinium.
Abstract:
Apparatus for generating a magnetic field having a spatially predetermined field pattern in a useful volume, where bodies of ferro-magnetic material influencing the field pattern are disposed in the useful volume. To assure a spatially predetermined field pattern in the useful volume with only small field errors, outside and on opposite sides of the useful volume at least one thin plate-shaped body of predetermined geometric extent comprising a material having high permeability is provided, of which the surfaces facing the useful volume are shaped and arranged so that the surfaces lie on a magnetic equipotential surface of the magnetic field to be generated in the useful volume.
Abstract:
An ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer having a source region and an analyzer region operable in both the standard drift mode and in a pulsed mode which includes ion trapping. Appropriate configurations of applied electrostatic fields permit trapping of ions in the source region of the spectrometer for relatively long periods after which detection is effected by drifting the ions from the source through the analyzer region where their power absorption is measured. The spectrometer may also be operated in the normal mode, thus allowing for the full range of conventional ion cyclotron resonance measurements with the additional capability of examining the variation of ion abundance with time.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to processes for ionizing one or more lanthanide isotopes, processes for separating lanthanide isotopes, various apparatus and systems useful for these processes, and compositions prepared from these processes.