Chapter

5

5Examining Spectrum Data

This chapter contains the following sections:

5.1

Overview .........................................................

5-2

5.2

Creating a Combined Spectrum ......................

5-4

5.3

Manual Calibration...........................................

5-5

5.4

Automatic Calibration.....................................

5-26

5.5

Centroiding ....................................................

5-36

5.6

Mass Deconvolution (Mariner Data Only) .......

5-37

5.7

Noise Filtering/Smoothing ..............................

5-42

5.8

Adjusting the Baseline ...................................

5-45

5.9

Truncating a Spectrum...................................

5-56

5.10Converting to a Singly Charged Spectrum

(Mariner Data Only) .......................................

5-59

5.11 AutoSaturation Correction

 

(Mariner Data Only) .......................................

5-62

5.12 Adding and Subtracting Raw or

 

Processed Spectra From the Same or

 

Different Data Files

 

(Dual Spectral Trace Arithmetic) ....................

5-64

Data Explorer™ Software User’s Guide

5-1