List of mass spectrometry acronyms

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This is a compilation of initialisms and acronyms commonly used in mass spectrometry.[1][2]

Contents

* !–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

* References
* External links

## A

* ADI – Ambient desorption ionization
* AE – Appearance energy
* AFADESI – Air flow-assisted desorption electrospray ionization
* AFAI – Air flow-assisted ionization[3]
* AFAPA – Aerosol flowing atmospheric-pressure afterglow
* AGHIS – All-glass heated inlet system[4]
* AIRLAB – Ambient infrared laser ablation[5]
* AMS – Accelerator mass spectrometry
* AMS – Aerosol mass spectrometer
* AMU – Atomic mass unit
* AP – Appearance potential
* AP MALDI – Atmospheric pressure matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization
* APCI – Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization
* API – Atmospheric pressure ionization
* APPI – Atmospheric pressure photoionization
* ASAP – Atmospheric Sample Analysis Probe
* ASMS – American Society for Mass Spectrometry

## B

* BP – Base peak
* BIRD – Blackbody infrared radiative dissociation[6]

## C

* CRF – Charge remote fragmentation
* CSR – Charge stripping reaction
* CI – Chemical ionization
* CA – Collisional activation
* CAD – Collisionally activated dissociation
* CID – Collision-induced dissociation
* CRM – Consecutive reaction monitoring
* CF-FAB – Continuous flow fast atom bombardment
* CRIMS – Chemical reaction interface mass spectrometry[7]
* CTD – Charge transfer dissociation[8]

## D

* DE – Delayed extraction
* DADI – Direct analysis of daughter ions
* DAPPI – Desorption atmospheric pressure photoionization
* DEP – Direct exposure probe
* DESI – Desorption electrospray ionization
* DIOS – Desorption/ionization on silicon[9]
* DIP – Direct insertion probe
* DART – Direct analysis in real time
* DLI – Direct liquid introduction
* DIA – Data independent acquisition

## E

* EA – Electron affinity
* EAD – Electron-activated dissociation
* ECD – Electron-capture dissociation
* ECI – Electron capture ionization
* EDD – Electron-detachment dissociation
* EI – Electron ionization (or electron impact)
* EJMS – European Journal of Mass Spectrometry
* ESA – Electrostatic energy analyzer
* ES/ESI – Electrospray ionisation
* ETD – Electron-transfer dissociation
* eV – Electronvolt

## F

* FAIMS – High-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry
* FAB – Fast atom bombardment
* FIB – Fast ion bombardment
* FD – Field desorption
* FFR – Field-free region
* FI – Field ionization
* FT-ICR MS – Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer
* FTMS – Fourier transform mass spectrometer

## G

* GDMS – Glow discharge mass spectrometry

## H

* HDX – Hydrogen/deuterium exchange
* HCD – Higher-energy C-trap dissociation

## I

* ICAT – Isotope-coded affinity tag
* ICP – Inductively coupled plasma
* ICRMS – Ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer
* IDMS – Isotope dilution mass spectrometry
* IJMS – International Journal of Mass Spectrometry
* IRMPD – Infrared multiphoton dissociation
* IKES – Ion kinetic energy spectrometry
* IMS – Ion mobility spectrometry
* IMSC – International Mass Spectrometry Conference
* IMSF – International Mass Spectrometry Foundation
* IRMS – Isotope ratio mass spectrometry
* IT – Ion trap
* ITMS – Ion trap mass spectrometry
* ITMS – Ion trap mobility spectrometry
* iTRAQ – Isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantitation

## J

* JASMS – Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
* JEOL – Japan Electro-Optics Laboratory
* JMS – Journal of Mass Spectrometry

## K

* KER – Kinetic energy release
* KERD – Kinetic energy release distribution

## L

* LCMS – Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry
* LD – Laser desorption
* LDI – Laser desorption ionization
* LI – Laser ionization
* LMMS – Laser microprobe mass spectrometry
* LIT – Linear ion trap
* LSI – Liquid secondary ionization
* LSII – Laserspray ionization inlet

## M

* MIKES – Mass-analyzed ion kinetic energy spectrometry
* MS – Mass spectrometer
* MS – Mass spectrometry
* MS2 – Mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry, i.e. tandem mass spectrometry
* MS/MS – Mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry, i.e. tandem mass spectrometry
* MALDESI – Matrix-assisted laser desorption electrospray ionization
* MALDI – Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization
* MAII – Matrix-assisted inlet ionization
* MAIV – Matrix-assisted ionization vacuum
* MIMS – Membrane introduction mass spectrometry, membrane inlet mass spectrometry, membrane interface mass spectrometry
* MCP – Microchannel plate
* MSn – Multiple-stage mass spectrometry
* MCP – Microchannel plate
* MPI – Multiphoton ionization
* MRM – Multiple reaction monitoring

## N

* NEMS-MS – Nanoelectromechanical systems mass spectrometry
* NETD – Negative electron-transfer dissociation
* NICI – Negative ion chemical ionization
* NRMS – Neutralization reionization mass spectrometry

## O

* oa-TOF – Orthogonal acceleration time of flight
* OMS – Organic Mass Spectrometry (journal)

## P

* PDI – Plasma desorption/ionization
* PDMS – Plasma desorption mass spectrometry
* PAD – Post-acceleration detector
* PSD – Post-source decay
* PyMS – Pyrolysis mass spectrometry

## Q

* QUISTOR – Quadrupole ion storage trap
* QIT – Quadrupole ion trap
* QMS – Quadrupole mass spectrometer
* QTOF – Quadrupole time of flight

## R

* RCM – Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
* REIMS – Rapid evaporative ionization mass spectrometry
* REMPI – Resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization
* RGA – Residual gas analyzer
* RI – Resonance ionization

## S

* SAII – Solvent-assisted ionization inlet
* SELDI – Surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization
* SESI – Secondary electrospray ionization
* SHRIMP – Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe
* SIFT – Selected ion flow tube
* SILAC – Stable isotope labelling by amino acids in cell culture
* SIM – Selected ion monitoring
* SIMS – Secondary ion mass spectrometry
* SIR – Selected ion recording
* SNMS – Secondary neutral mass spectrometry
* SRM – Selected reaction monitoring
* SWIFT – Stored waveform inverse Fourier transform
* SID – Surface-induced dissociation
* SIR – Surface-induced reaction
* SI – Surface ionization
* SORI – Sustained off-resonance irradiation

## T

* TI – Thermal ionization
* TIC \- Total ion chromatogram[10]
* TICC – Total ion current chromatogram, synonymous with TIC
* TLF – Time-lag focusing
* TMT – Tandem mass tags
* TOF-MS – Time-of-flight mass spectrometer

## References

1. ↑ Busch, Kenneth L. (February 2002). "SAMS:Speaking with Acronyms in Mass Spectrometry". Spectroscopy 17 (2). http://spectroscopyonline.findanalytichem.com/spectroscopy/data/articlestandard//spectroscopy/052002/8463/article.pdf. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
2. ↑ Busch, Kenneth L. (May 1, 2006). "Acronyms in Mass Spectrometry". spectroscopyonline.com. http://www.chromatographyonline.com/acronyms-mass-spectrometry. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
3. ↑ He, Jiuming; Tang, Fei; Luo, Zhigang; Chen, Yi; Xu, Jing; Zhang, Ruiping; Wang, Xiaohao; Abliz, Zeper (2011). "Air flow assisted ionization for remote sampling of ambient mass spectrometry and its application". Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 25 (7): 843–850. doi:10.1002/rcm.4920. ISSN 0951-4198. PMID 21416520.
4. ↑ Peterson, Lowell (1962). "Mass Spectrometer All-Glass Heated Inlet.". Analytical Chemistry 34 (13): 1850–1851. doi:10.1021/ac60193a054. ISSN 0003-2700.
5. ↑ O’Brien, Jeremy T.; Williams, Evan R.; Holman, Hoi-Ying N. (2015). "Ambient Infrared Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry (AIRLAB-MS) of Live Plant Tissue with Plume Capture by Continuous Flow Solvent Probe". Analytical Chemistry 87 (5): 2631–2638. doi:10.1021/ac503383p. ISSN 0003-2700. PMID 25622206.
6. ↑ Dunbar, Robert C. (2004). "BIRD (blackbody infrared radiative dissociation): Evolution, principles, and applications". Mass Spectrometry Reviews 23 (2): 127–58. doi:10.1002/mas.10074. PMID 14732935. Bibcode: 2004MSRv...23..127D.
7. ↑ Abramson, Fred P. (1994). "CRIMS: Chemical reaction interface mass spectrometry". Mass Spectrometry Reviews 13 (4): 341–356. doi:10.1002/mas.1280130403. Bibcode: 1994MSRv...13..341A.
8. ↑ "Charge transfer dissociation (CTD) mass spectrometry of peptide cations using kiloelectronvolt helium cations". Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 25 (11): 1939–43. November 2014. doi:10.1007/s13361-014-0989-6. PMID 25231159. Bibcode: 2014JASMS..25.1939H.
9. ↑ Buriak, Jillian M.; Wei, Jing; Siuzdak, Gary (1999). "Desorption–ionization mass spectrometry on porous silicon". Nature 399 (6733): 243–6. doi:10.1038/20400. PMID 10353246. Bibcode: 1999Natur.399..243W.
10. ↑ Mizvesky, James; Snow, Nicholas H. (5 April 2025). "Fundamentals of Benchtop GC–MS Data Analysis and Terminology". LCGC International 2 (3): 12-14. doi:10.56530/lcgc.int.sk6076k5. https://www.chromatographyonline.com/view/fundamentals-of-benchtop-gc-ms-data-analysis-and-terminology. Retrieved 12 February 2026.

## External links

* Mass Spectroscopy Acronym Page at MIT

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