The 30-Minute Guide to ICP-MS

ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry) is not a new technique at all. In fact, it is over 20 years old! The first papers on ICP-MS were published in the 1980s and PerkinElmer SCIEX introduced the first commercially available ICP-MS instrument in 1983. Since that time, many improvements and refinements have been made to each generation of ICP-MS instrumentation. Today, PerkinElmer SCIEX is on its fifth generation ICP-MS and the technique is used daily by many laboratories as a routine analytical tool. ICP-MS offers many benefits to laboratories performing trace metal determinations.