In a cycloidal-focusing mass spectrometer, nonuniformities in the magnetic and electric fields may cause either an actual deterioration of the image quality or merely a shift in the focal point. The latter effect is the more usual one and it can be compensated easily.
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Charles F. Robinson (1956) studied this question.
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