Melanie J. Bailey

TL;DR: The suite of techniques which are available with the small accelerators used for MeV ion beam analysis (IBA) range from broad beams, microbeams or external beams using the various particle and photon spectrometries (including RBS, EBS, ERD, STIM, PIXE, PIGE, NRA and their variants), to tomography and secondary particle spectrometers like MeV-SIMS.

TL;DR: Comparison of the newer techniques with the more established gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic imaging shows good agreement between the methods, with each method detecting repeatable differences between the donors.

TL;DR: It is shown for the first time that the excreted metabolites of drugs of abuse can be detected in fingerprints using ambient mass spectrometry.

TL;DR: This work shows for the first time how mass spectrometry imaging (in this case time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrumetry, ToF-SIMS) can be used to enhance the quality of partially recovered fingermarks.

TL;DR: In this article, the suitability of using MeV secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS with an MeV ion beam) to determine the order in which a fingerprint and written text were deposited on paper was investigated.