Waters Xevo MRT mass spectrometer

Waters has unveiled the Xevo MRT, its highest-performing benchtop mass spectrometer (MS). Building on the innovative technology pioneered by the Waters SELECT SERIES MRT MS, the system combines multi-reflecting time-of-flight and hybrid quadrupole time-of-flight technologies within a flexible benchtop platform. It delivers 100,000 full width half maximum (FWHM) resolution at 100 Hz MS/MS scan speed and <500 ppb mass accuracy, enabling deep probing of biologically relevant concentrations with high levels of mass accuracy — independent of acquisition rate.

The innovative multi-reflecting time-of-flight design offers scientists the power to work at maximum resolution with high sensitivity and fast data acquisition rates. This helps users to identify analytes across a range of samples and complex matrices and generate comprehensive mass data for scientific interpretation. Users can thus run more samples in less time for large-cohort biomedical research and epidemiology-type studies, without compromising confidence in their data.

Waters offers complete workflows for metabolomic, lipidomic and metabolite identification for the MS, alongside the company’s high-throughput ACQUITY UPLC Systems and UPLC Column chemistries and waters_connect software for data acquisition, processing and reporting. The system supports universal data-sharing via mzML file formats with third-party informatics software, including popular applications from Mass Analytica such as its MARS, Lipostar2 and MassMetaSite software offerings.