The ion optics of multi-turn time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry was investigated. Two feasible systems using toroidal sector plus quadrupole lenses and cylindrical sectors plus quadrupole doublets were found. The combination of a linear TOF with a figure-of-eight type multi-turn system is proposed.
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Matsuo et al. (1997) studied this question.