ESCA: Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis
eV: electronvolt
FAB: fast atom bombardment
FAIMS: High-Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry
FD: Field desorption
FFR: Field-Free Region
FI: field ionization
FIB: Fast Ion Bombardment
FOS: Faint Object Spectrograph
FPLC: fast protein liquid chromatography
FSS: Field Spectrometer System
FT-ICR MS: Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometer
FTMS: Fourier transform mass spectrometer
GDMS: Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry
GHRS: Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
HDX: hydrogen/deuterium exchange
HIRIS: High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
ICAT: isotope-coded affinity tag
ICOS: Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy
ICP: Inductively Coupled Plasma
ICRMS: Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometer
IDMS: isotope dilution mass spectrometry
IJMS: International Journal of Mass Spectrometry
IKES: Ion Kinetic Energy Spectrometry
IMS: Ion Mobility Spectrometry
IMSC: International Mass Spectrometry Conference
IMSF: International Mass Spectrometry Foundation
IRMPD: Infrared multiphoton dissociation
IRMS: isotope ratio mass spectrometry
ISO: Imaging Spectrometic Observatory
IT: ion trap
iTRAQ: Isobaric Tag for Relative and Absolute Quantitation
JASMS: Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry
JEOL: Japan Electro-Optics Laboratory
JESRP: Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena
JMS: Journal of Mass Spectrometry
JQSRT: Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
JRSp: Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
KER: Kinetic Energy Release
KERD: Kinetic Energy Release Distribution