“…Ion mobility separates ions based on their shape (more correctly on their average collisional crosssection) and has proved particularly useful in lipidomics for distinguishing isobaric lipids from different classes or of different double bond configurations (2,14,56,66,69,93,109). It also has great potential for removing interfering chemical background from the mass spectra, allowing better assignment and more sensitive detection, and has proved particularly useful in mass spectrometric imaging applications (16,52,144). This technique has not yet been applied specifically to oxidized lipid species, although there are some reports that include oxidized lipids (51), but it will have great potential for adding an additional dimension of separation.…”