Thermo Fisher Scientific's LTQ Velos LC-MS Selected as Instrument Business Outlook's ASMS Product of the Show

The Instrument Business Outlook editors selected the recently launched Thermo Scientific LTQ Velos due to its innovative design and unique benefits for mass spectrometry analyses. The LTQ Velos features a new dual-pressure trap and advanced ion optics, making it the world's fastest and most sensitive ion trap mass spectrometer. The unique dual-pressure trap technology includes two discrete pressure regions that allow the decoupling of ion manipulation and detection. This enables the use of optimal pressures during analysis, increasing both scan speed and resolution. The outstanding data quality and sensitivity of the LTQ Velos make it ideal for the analysis of complex mixtures, such as the identification of low level proteins and structural elucidation of metabolites in biological matrices.

We are extremely honored to receive this accolade, which is a significant achievement given the scope of new products being showcased at ASMS,
comments August Specht, ion trap product marketing manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific. The LTQ Velos is the latest in a line of world-class mass spectrometry solutions from Thermo Fisher Scientific, and this honor recognizes our commitment to providing high-performance products to fulfill market needs.

For proteomics applications, the LTQ Velos offers improvements in speed and sensitivity, providing greater coverage in the analysis of complex peptide mixtures and increasing the confidence of protein identification at low sample levels. The multiple fragmentation techniques available on the LTQ Velos enable more confident sequence assignment and post-translational modification (PTM) identification. Faster scan rates also reduce cycle times by up to 50 percent, doubling the number of proteins and peptides identified.

For metabolism applications, the dual-pressure trap technology increases fragmentation efficiencies, resulting in faster, more confident structural elucidation. The improved speed and sensitivity combines with MSn capabilities, maximizing throughput while maintaining the superior data quality required for the identification and quantitation of multiple co-eluting compounds.