
Before You Begin
Voyager
™
Biospectrometry
™
Workstation User’s Guide 6-7
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6.1.3 Calibrating the Mass Scale
This section describes:
• Types of calibration
• When to calibrate
• Calibration equations
• Default calibration
• Generated calibration
• Acquiring calibration standards
Types of
calibration
The Voyager software includes a default calibration routine
that provides adequate mass accuracy for many applications.
If you require optimum mass accuracy, you can generate a
calibration based on the observed time of flight of the known
masses of calibration standards. The Calibration function in
the Voyager system allows you to generate four types of
calibration:
• Default calibration—Provides typically 0.1% accuracy
in Linear mode, and typically 0.01% or better accuracy
in Reflector mode.
• External calibration—Provides 0.05% accuracy in
Linear mode, and 0.01% or better accuracy in Reflector
mode. To perform external calibration, you create a
calibration (.CAL) file in the Data Explorer software
using standards of known mass. You then specify the
file in the Instrument Control Panel when acquiring
data, or apply the file to existing data in the Data
Explorer software.
• Internal calibration—Provides accuracy of 0.02% or
better in Linear mode, and 0.002% (20 ppm) in
Reflector mode. See Appendix A, Specifications, for the
internal calibration mass accuracy specification for your
system type. To perform internal calibration, you include
an internal standard in your sample. You then display
the data file in the Data Explorer software and calibrate
using the internal standard.
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