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. 2020 Nov 21;413(4):1009–1016. doi: 10.1007/s00216-020-03059-9

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Scheme of the GC-IMS. A six-port valve is used as sample inlet. Subsequently, a GC with bundled columns and a drift tube IMS are used in series. The GC pre-separates the sample and thus avoids competing ionization processes in the IMS reaction region. Furthermore, it adds orthogonality