Title: profile mode
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - profile mode
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.12536
Status: current

Definition
Method for acquiring a mass spectrum where each peak is displayed as a curve, with the data points defining the curve corresponding to the signal intensities at each particular m/z value.

Related Term
- centroid acquisition: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/12351

Source
- PAC, 2013, 85, 1515. 'Definitions of terms relating to mass spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)' on page 1579 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06)

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- json: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12536/json
- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12536/xml

Citation: Citation: 'profile mode' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.12536
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Accessed: 2026-07-14T07:26:47+00:00