TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Introduces New Q-TOF Mass Spectrometry System
April 21 2015 - 11:00AM
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Enhanced Hardware and Software of Midrange
Instrument Sets Standard for Routine Analyses
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the
Agilent 6545 Q-TOF mass spectrometry system, designed to provide
added sensitivity for routine analyses.
The new midrange system includes advances in hardware and
software that make it both more reliable and easier to use for
trace-level analysis of small-molecule compounds in applications
such as food safety, environmental testing, forensic toxicology and
pharmaceuticals.
The 6545 is engineered to be Agilent’s most reliable Q-TOF ever,
building on a legacy for LC/MS reliability and adding hardware
advances such as ion shaping optics, high-voltage power supplies,
and longer-life parts to increase robustness.
The system’s new autotune software leverages particle swarm
technology to optimize the instrument for small-molecule analyses
with the click of a button. In just about 15 minutes, it optimizes
the instrument to get up to five times more sensitivity for small
molecule compounds, including low-intensity compounds.
“The 6545 demonstrates Agilent’s commitment to increasing
mass-spec sensitivity at every price point, delivering up to five
times the sensitivity of previous instruments for small molecule
analyses,” said Monty Benefiel, Agilent vice president and general
manager of mass spectrometry products. “With Agilent mass-spec
systems—along with our MassHunter software and compounds
databases—any user can get exceptional quantitative and qualitative
results.”
“The 6545 Q-TOF offers a substantial leap forward in sensitivity
while maintaining all other features one expects from a high-end
Q-TOF system,” said Dr. Koen Sandra, director of R&D at the
Research Institute for Chromatography, which has sites in Belgium
and France. “Together with its improved robustness and
advanced-yet-user-friendly tuning, the 6545 Q-TOF can be a
workhorse in both targeted and untargeted profiling of small
molecules in a wide range of applications. We were suddenly able to
elucidate impurities in pharmaceutical samples that we overlooked
in the past.”
Agilent is the leader in qualitative identification, offering
extensive compound databases for pesticides, metabolites,
mycotoxins, veterinary drugs and drugs of abuse for forensic
analysis.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A), a global leader in
life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets, is the
premier laboratory partner for a better world. Agilent works with
customers in more than 100 countries, providing instruments,
software, services, and consumables for the entire laboratory
workflow. Agilent generated revenues of $4.0 billion in fiscal
2014. The company employs about 12,000 people worldwide.
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