Solid‐phase microextraction: a powerful sample preparation tool prior to mass spectrometric analysis

G Vas, K Vekey - Journal of mass spectrometry, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Sample preparation is an essential step in analysis, greatly influencing the reliability and
accuracy of resulted the time and cost of analysis. Solid‐Phase Microextraction (SPME) is a …

Microextraction of drugs

H Lord, J Pawliszyn - Journal of Chromatography A, 2000 - Elsevier
This review will attempt to provide an overview as well as a theoretical and practical
understanding of the use of microextraction technologies for drug analysis. The majority of …

Sensitivity enhancement in liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure ionization mass spectrometry using derivatization and mobile phase additives

S Gao, ZP Zhang, HT Karnes - Journal of Chromatography B, 2005 - Elsevier
High performance liquid chromatography with atmospheric pressure ionization (API) mass
spectrometry has been essential to a large number of quantitative analytical applications for …

Automated sample preparation using in-tube solid-phase microextraction and its application–a review

H Kataoka - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2002 - Springer
Sample preparation, such as extraction, concentration, and isolation of analytes, greatly
influences their reliable and accurate analysis. In-tube solid-phase microextraction (SPME) …

Solid-phase microextraction for the analysis of biological samples

G Theodoridis, EHM Koster, GJ De Jong - Journal of Chromatography B …, 2000 - Elsevier
Solid-phase microextraction (SPME) has been introduced for the extraction of organic
compounds from environmental samples. This relatively new extraction technique has now …

Occurrence of natural and synthetic glucocorticoids in sewage treatment plants and receiving river waters

H Chang, J Hu, B Shao - Environmental science & technology, 2007 - ACS Publications
This paper first reports the occurrence of six glucocorticoids (prednisone, prednisolone,
cortisone, cortisol, dexamethasone, and 6α-methylprednisolone) in sewage treatment plants …

Determination of estrogens and their conjugates in water using solid-phase extraction followed by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

T Isobe, H Shiraishi, M Yasuda, A Shinoda… - … of chromatography A, 2003 - Elsevier
An analytical procedure for the determination of steroid estrogens and their conjugates was
developed and applied to aqueous environmental samples. The analytes of 15 compounds …

Mass spectrometry in the clinical laboratory

DH Chace - Chemical reviews, 2001 - ACS Publications
The utilization of mass spectrometers in clinical laboratories is undergoing considerable
expansion at the outset of the 21st century. 1, 2 This expansion is largely due to …

Determination of steroid sex hormones in water and urine matrices by stir bar sorptive extraction and liquid chromatography with diode array detection

C Almeida, JMF Nogueira - Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical …, 2006 - Elsevier
In this study, stir bar sorptive extraction and liquid desorption followed by high performance
liquid chromatography with diode array detection (SBSE–LD–HPLC/DAD) were combined …

Application of solid-phase microextraction in analytical toxicology

F Pragst - Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2007 - Springer
Solid-phase microextraction (SPME) is a miniaturized and solvent-free sample preparation
technique for chromatographic–spectrometric analysis by which the analytes are extracted …