HP Data Explorer 4 Chapter 4 Examining Chromatogram Data, Chapter 5 Examining Spectrum Data

Table of Contents

Chapter 4 Examining Chromatogram Data

4.1	Overview	..............................................................................	4-2
4.2	Creating an Extracted Ion Chromatogram .....................................		4-5
	4.2.1	Creating an Extracted Ion Chromatogram (XIC) .....................	4-5
	4.2.2	Creating a Constant Neutral Loss (CNL) Chromatogram ........	4-9

4.3Creating an Extracted Absorbance Chromatogram (XAC)

	(Mariner Data Only) ................................................................		4-13
4.4	Noise Filtering/Smoothing ........................................................		4-17
4.5	Adding and Subtracting Raw Spectra Within a Data File ..................		4-20
4.6	Displaying MS Method Data (Mariner Data Only) ...........................		4-23
4.7	Adjusting the Baseline ............................................................		4-27
	4.7.1	Using Baseline Offset ...........................................................	4-27
	4.7.2	Using Baseline Correction .....................................................	4-29
4.8	Using UV Trace Offset (Mariner Data Only) ..................................		4-30

Chapter 5 Examining Spectrum Data

5.1	Overview	..............................................................................	5-2
5.2	Creating a Combined Spectrum .................................................		5-4
5.3	Manual Calibration ..................................................................		5-5
	5.3.1	Overview of Manual Calibration .............................................	5-5
	5.3.2	Manually Calibrating ..............................................................	5-7
	5.3.3	Creating or Modifying a Calibration Reference File (.REF) ....	5-17
	5.3.4	Reverting to Instrument Calibration .......................................	5-22
	5.3.5	Hints for Calibrating Mariner Data .........................................	5-24
	5.3.6	Hints for Calibrating Voyager Data ........................................	5-25
5.4	Automatic Calibration..............................................................		5-26
	5.4.1	Overview of Automatic Calibration ........................................	5-26
	5.4.2	Importing and Specifying Automatic Calibration Settings .......	5-29
	5.4.3	Automatically Calibrating (Mariner Data Only) .......................	5-34

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