High-res benchtop ESI-TOF: Bruker Daltonics' microTOF mass spectrometer offers higher mass accuracy in a smaller package.

The life science mass spectrometry industry has experienced a boom recently with a spate of new instruments and technological advances. Billerica, Mass.-based Bruker Daltonics continues this trend with the new microTOF[TM] electrospray ionization-time-of-flight (ESI-TOF) mass spectrometer, introduced at the 2003 PittCon conference in Orlando, Fla.

The microTOF is a benchtop instrument that offers twice the resolution--10,000 FWHM (full width, half maximum) versus 5,000 FWHM--of its competitors despite its smaller size, says Victor Fursey, Bruker Daltonics' director of sales and marketing for North America. In addition, the system features better than 3 ppm mass …