I would like to know which brand and model of ICP/MS system offers the most of advantages and pluses.
That strongly depends on what you are going to investigate. As a useful allround purpose device, I recommend the spectro ms. It is a easy to use device and provides a user-friendly software, yet can be tuned to numerous special applications.
Dear Maria
Currently there are several manufacturers of ICP-MS. Most known are Agilent, Perkin Elmer, Thermo Scientific. Personally I am using quite old Agilent 7500ce and I am very happy with its performance. I have also conducted some trainings on Agilent 7700 and I must say I was more them happy to see the progress Agilent has made since 7500 in both software and hardware. So from my point of view I would not hesitate to choose Agilent. But to be honest the machines from different manufacturers are probably comparable if you go into technical specification and performance. Your choice should not only consider the capabilities, but also price, not only of instrument but also prices of consumables, quality of technical support. You should look for other institutions in your country that are already using that kind of equipment, ask them about their opinion of the technical and methodological support, how the training was conducted, etc..
Other very important factor should be the simplicity of the instrument. You should consider this aspect very carefully. If you can do some basic repairs and services by yourself this can save your time and money. If the machine is complicated then of course, the expensive service is required. So ask the users in your country.
Another factor - software. Check the software if it has all the options you need. Good software should have not only basic options for operating the machine, but also other options allowing for example some quality control, control of the internal standard signal with every sample and other which can be suitable for your needs.
Eg. Agilent has very good automatic option allowing automatic tuning of almost every parameter. This is actually very helpful.
And remember one thing. It is not the machine that makes the difference but the operator.
If you have further questions, I will gladly help
Hi Gaca, just for me to be sure I understand what you mean.
Do you agree with everybody's comments ? Which brand do you have experience with?
Best,
Maria Martinez
A bit of both actually.,, The choise really depends on what you want to achieve.
I personally have some experience with Agilent machines and Thermo Scientifics's Neptunes. The latter beeing very good, extremely sesitive, but quite expensive in purchase, maintnance and routine use.
Agilent instrument I had a chance to play with was 8800 Triple Quad. Which still offeres reasonable sensitivity, ease of use. It is a benchtop instrument so you do not need a big lab for it and allows the usa of different reaction gasses which helps when you want to shift one elemnt away from another by reacting one of them eg. with ammonia, CO2 or hydrogen...
I hope that helps.
Kind regards,
Pawel Gaca
Dear Roman, Rafal and Gaca,
Many thanks for your valuable feedback. I appreciate your comments and recommendations. That is helping me lots.
Cheers, Maria
Dear Maria,
we are using an Element XR from Thermo Scientific and are quite happy with that. It's a high resolution ICP-MS which gives you the chance to separate peaks very good, even the separation of P from Si works very well. Service and also replacement equipment is quite expensive, but really good and service is here in a short time if you need them. They have a newer system (we bought ours in 2009) - the iCAPQ (quadrupole system) which is supposed to be same quality as the Element XR.
I have no experiences with other systems so I can just tell you about the mentioned one. Don't forget to check possibilities of coupling techniques before buying a new system to make sure you can expand it if necessary.
Cheers,
Stefanie
Hi all,
I know we have not soooo visible name on the market, but I work as a software developer for ICP-MS of Analytik Jena, we bought technologies from Varian few years ago. We support also coupling to LC and Laser systems, in nearest feature also via trigger box every hardware you can imagine. I study bioinformatics and MS is not only my work, but also research field, so I compare technologies and sw actually all the time and it is really nice that PlasmaQuantMS has higher sensitivity than actually any PQMS on the market. Analytik Jena gets slowly a greater support team, but we are still compareably small,though very customer-friendly. Every support question you can adress direktly to me (I will personally answer if its about SW and give to my chemist colleagues if it is out of my area). You can count on the point, that you can get direkt contact if you have wishes and complains and we will care about that. I care.
Cheers,
Irina
PlasmaQuant from AnalytikJena offers a lot of advantages when compared to other models of the competition.
https://www.analytik-jena.de/de/analytical-instrumentation/produkte/massenspektrometer/plasmaquantr-ms-elite.html
Hi all,
Great to see this discussion. What advantages do you think Agilent 7900 would have over PlasmaQuant MS (any of four) and vice versa? Among other research applications, we would need it for lead (Pb) ratio analysis in blood and environmental samples in the future.
Thanks
Hi Vladimer Khasia
Advantages over Agilent 7900:
1. Sensitive – 1500 Mcps/ppm at
Hello All, I am a bioanalytical chemist, but our group is looking at ICPMS for trace levels of Pb. Cd. As, Hg in biological samples and plant material. We are strongly considering Agilent. We want simplicity for the operator, easy to use software with good quantitation routines and reporting. Can you make some recommendations to go along with Dr Galazka's?
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