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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2016 Mar 14;27(5):757–766. doi: 10.1007/s13361-016-1366-4

Table 2.

Comparison of ion traps in terms of sensitivity constraints. + denotes enhanced performance compared to −.

Characteristics 3D ion trap 2D linear ion trap FTICR
Trapping efficiency − + +
Trapping capacity − + +
Detection limit + + −