Deconvolution of Mass Spectra

The overall process involves four sequential steps in spectrum purification and 

1) Noise analysis by a complete analysis of noise signals with the use of this information for component perception. A correction for baseline drift is done for each component in case the chromatogram does not have a flat baseline. 

2) Component perception identifies the location of each of the eluted components on the retention time scale by investigating the elution peak profile. 

3) True spectral deconvolution of the data. Even if there is no available constant background for subtraction, AMDIS extracts clean spectra. The extraction of closely co-eluting components is possible even for analytes that peak within a single scan of each other in a wide range of each component s concentration. 

4) Library search for compound identification to match each deconvoluted spectrum to a reference library spectrum. 

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