ISQ™ EM Single Quadrupole MS eLearning Courses

ISQ™ EM Single Quadrupole MS eLearning courses provide you with foundational knowledge and basic skills that you need to use and benefit from your instrument. You will find a series of eLearning courses which can cover different topics such as foundational theory and/or basic operations principle and/or user maintenance and troubleshooting.

The ISQ™ EM Single Quadrupole MS foundational theory eLearning course introduces the ISQ™ EM and the basics of mass spectrometry. This course provides an introduction to the ISQ™ EM and the Ion Chromatography and Liquid Chromatography instruments which can be used with it. Included in this course:

• Definition of mass spectrometry
• The four phases of mass spectrometry and discuss the role of each of them in the process.

This Foundational Theory course is similar to the ISQ™ EC Single Quadrupole MS Foundational Theory course.

The ISQ™ EM Single Quadrupole MS basic operations with Chromeleon™ eLearning course will provide an overview of the instrument, method considerations and method creation. This course will also cover basic data processing in Chromeleon. Some of the topics included in the course include:

• An introduction to the different components of the ISQ Mass Spectrometer
• LC-MS Method Considerations
• Chromeleon Control and Method Creation
• Data Processing in Chromeleon.

The topics covered in this course will be similar to those covered in the ISQ™ EC Single Quadrupole MS basic operations with Chromeleon course.

The ISQ™ EM Single Quadrupole MS user maintenance and troubleshooting eLearning course provides basic maintenance and troubleshooting guidelines for Thermo Scientific™ ISQ™ EM Single Quadrupole MS.

Topics covered in this course include:

• Routine and preventative maintenance tasks:
• ESI probe capillary replacement
• APCI probe capillary replacement
• APCI needle replacement
• System shutdown
• Front optics removal, disassembly, cleaning, and reassembly
• Routine diagnostics and troubleshooting guidelines:
• General troubleshooting information
• AutoTune diagnostics
• Troubleshooting gas leaks