Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) Technology

Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is a modern element analysis technology developed in the late 1970s based on particle accelerators and ion detectors, and belongs to a high-energy isotope mass spectrometry technology. Among mass spectrometry methods, a particular advantage of the accelerator mass spectrometry technology is its ability to isolate rare isotopes from nearby abundant masses. AMS is mainly used to detect long-lived radionuclides with extremely low abundances in nature. AMS is commonly used in archaeology, geology, marine science, pharmacokinetics, metabolite analysis, toxicology and microdosing studies.