. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 16.

Published in final edited form as: Nat Protoc. 2018 Oct;13(10):2121–2148. doi: 10.1038/s41596-018-0016-7

Table 1 |.

The oxides and their ratios of light lanthanides, affected CyTOF detection channels, and overlapped heavy lanthanide ions

Light lanthanides			Heavy lanthanides
Interfering elements	One positive charge oxide ions	Ratios of oxides (%)^a	Mass spectrum overlapped ions	Detection channels (m/z)
Lanthanum	¹³⁹La¹⁶O⁺	≤3.0	¹⁵⁵Gd⁺	155
Cerium	¹⁴⁰Ce¹⁶O⁺	≤3.0	¹⁵⁶Gd⁺	156
Praseodymium	¹⁴¹Pr¹⁶O⁺	≤2.4	¹⁵⁷Gd⁺	157
Neodymium	¹⁴²Nd¹⁶O⁺	≤2.1	¹⁵⁸Gd⁺	158
	¹⁴³Nd¹⁶O⁺		¹⁵⁹Tb⁺	159
	¹⁴⁴Nd¹⁶O⁺		¹⁶⁰Gd⁺	160
	¹⁴⁵Nd¹⁶O⁺		¹⁶¹Dy⁺	161
	¹⁴⁶Nd¹⁶O⁺		¹⁶²Dy⁺	162
	¹⁴⁸Nd¹⁶O⁺		¹⁶⁴Dy⁺	164
	¹⁵⁰Nd¹⁶O⁺		¹⁶⁶Er⁺	166
Samarium	¹⁴⁷Sm¹⁶O⁺	≤0.5	¹⁶³Dy⁺	163
	¹⁴⁹Sm¹⁶O⁺		¹⁶⁵Ho⁺	165
	¹⁵²Sm¹⁶O⁺		¹⁶⁸Er⁺	168
	¹⁵⁴Sm¹⁶O⁺		¹⁷⁰Er⁺	170
Europium	¹⁵¹Eu¹⁶O⁺	≤0.1	¹⁶⁷Er⁺	167
Europium	¹⁵³Eu¹⁶O⁺		¹⁶⁹Tm⁺	169
Gadolinium	¹⁵⁵Gd¹⁶O⁺	≤1.5	¹⁷¹Yb⁺	171
	¹⁵⁶Gd¹⁶O⁺		¹⁷²Yb⁺	172
	¹⁵⁷Gd¹⁶O⁺		¹⁷³Yb⁺	173
	¹⁵⁸Gd¹⁶O⁺		¹⁷⁴Yb⁺	174
	¹⁶⁰Gd¹⁶O⁺		¹⁷⁶Yb⁺	176
Terbium	¹⁵⁹Tb¹⁶O⁺	≤1.2	¹⁷⁵Lu⁺	175

The values are based on the published ratios of lanthanide oxides measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry analysis⁴³.