PMID: 9191558Jun 1, 1997Paper

Evaluation of selected-ion storage ion-trap mass spectrometry for detecting urinary anabolic agents

Clinical Chemistry
L D Bowers, D J Borts

Abstract

Limits of detection are important issues for GC/MS screening for anabolic agents and for confirmation of various drugs of abuse. We compared a quadrupole ion trap (QIT) operated in two different selected-ion storage modes and a quadrupole mass filter (QMF) operated in the selected-ion monitoring mode. Results with the model compound tetrachlorobenzene indicate that, for simultaneous monitoring of more than four ions, the QIT operated in a frequency-modulated selected-ion storage mode has better limits of detection than the QMF. Use of a single-ion storage technique gave results similar to those of the QMF. We also evaluated both QIT selected-ion storage approaches for the limits of detection of the trimethylsilyl derivatives of four anabolic steroid metabolites and the beta-agonist clenbuterol. We found no improvement in detection limits over that of a similar method with selected-ion monitoring and a QMF when four anabolic steroid metabolites and clenbuterol were extracted from a urine matrix. The lack of improvement in the limit of detection resulted from matrix background signals at masses similar to those of the steroids.

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