ABSTRACT
Rapid evaporative ionization mass spectrometry (REIMS) technology may solve some issues in analysis. REIMS can circumvent these issues without sacrificing a loss in the quality of results. For REIMS, one can use Joule heating, contact heating, or radiative heating. For instance, mass spectra of biological tissues obtained using laser ablation and by the electrochemical Joule heating method are very similar. Although there are various applications of REIMS, the most in-demand application is still the analysis of biological tissues, including in vivo analysis which is of crucial importance for medicine. Experiments showed that REIMS of biological tissues provides information about the molecular masses of many biologically important groups of compounds. A fast and effective way to identify meat products using REIMS was presented by J. Balog et al. REIMS technology was found to be a promising tool in food safety applications providing a reliable and simple method for the rapid characterization of food products.
