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Anal Bioanal Chem

Title:		Alignment of retention time obtained from multicapillary column gas chromatography used for VOC analysis with ion mobility spectrometry
Author(s):		Perl T; Bodeker B; Junger M; Nolte J; Vautz W;
Address:		"Department of Anaesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Gottingen, 37073 Gottingen, Germany. tperl@gwdg.de"
Journal Title:		Anal Bioanal Chem
Year:		2010
Volume:		20100530
Issue:		6
Page Number:		2385 - 2394
DOI:		10.1007/s00216-010-3798-1
ISSN/ISBN:		1618-2650 (Electronic) 1618-2642 (Print) 1618-2642 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Multicapillary column (MCC) ion mobility spectrometers (IMS) are increasingly in demand for medical diagnosis, biological applications and process control. In a MCC-IMS, volatile compounds are differentiated by specific retention time and ion mobility when rapid preseparation techniques are applied, e.g. for the analysis of complex and humid samples. Therefore, high accuracy in the determination of both parameters is required for reliable identification of the signals. The retention time in the MCC is the subject of the present investigation because, for such columns, small deviations in temperature and flow velocity may cause significant changes in retention time. Therefore, a universal correction procedure would be a helpful tool to increase the accuracy of the data obtained from a gas-chromatographic preseparation. Although the effect of the carrier gas flow velocity and temperature on retention time is not linear, it could be demonstrated that a linear alignment can compensate for the changes in retention time due to common minor deviations of both the carrier gas flow velocity and the column temperature around the MCC-IMS standard operation conditions. Therefore, an effective linear alignment procedure for the correction of those deviations has been developed from the analyses of defined gas mixtures under various experimental conditions. This procedure was then applied to data sets generated from real breath analyses obtained in clinical studies using different instruments at different measuring sites for validation. The variation in the retention time of known signals, especially for compounds with higher retention times, was significantly improved. The alignment of the retention time--an indispensable procedure to achieve a more precise identification of analytes--using the proposed method reduces the random error caused by small accidental deviations in column temperature and flow velocity significantly"
Keywords:		"Breath Tests Chromatography, Gas/*instrumentation/methods Humans Ions Spectrum Analysis/methods Temperature Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis;"
Notes:		"MedlinePerl, Thorsten Bodeker, Bertram Junger, Melanie Nolte, Jurgen Vautz, Wolfgang eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Germany 2010/06/01 Anal Bioanal Chem. 2010 Jul; 397(6):2385-94. doi: 10.1007/s00216-010-3798-1. Epub 2010 May 30"