Pharmaceutical
The Omni Spray® DESI Ion Source is applicable in the pharmaceutical industry by enabling direct measurements of tablets to identify counterfeit materials or for determining drug and metabolite concentrations in biological fluids or determining the spatial distribution of a drug, its metabolites, or endogenous components in intact tissue sections.
Learn more about the capabilities of Desorption Electrospray Ionization (DESI) and Omni Spray® Ion Sources by reviewing the application sheets listed below.

Application Sheets
- Counterfeit Tablet Detection
- Analysis of Drugs and Drug Metabolites in Urine
- Direct Analysis of Pharmaceutical Tablets
- DESI-MS/MS Analysis of Rapid Separation by Pressurized Planar Electrochromatography
- Emerging Methods: Molecular Imaging
- Quantification of Rapamycin in Whole Blood
- Peptide Mass Fingerprinting of Tryptic Digest
- Quantification of Carbamazepine in Plasma
- Mass Spectrometry Imaging Using Desorption Electrospray Ionization
- Analysis of Small Pharmaceutical Molecules Using a Waters LCT Premier and an Automated 1-D DESI Source
- Effects of Various Parameter Settings in DESI-MS
- Enhanced Sensitivity with New Ion Transfer Tube
- DESI and MALDI Imaging of Anti-Tumor Agents in Tissue Sections
Posters
- Direct Profiling and Molecular Imaging of Lipids in Rat Brain Tissue using Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry
- Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry: Imaging drugs and metabolites in tissues
- Detection and Imaging of Pharmaceutics in Biological Tissue using Desorption Electrospray Ionization (DESI) Mass Spectrometry
Publications
The Omni Spray ® Ion Source is compatible for use with many of the instruments from:
