Includes bibliographical references and index.

IMS as a historical innovation / Mitsutoshi Setou -- Guide to planning the sample preparation step / Yuki Sugiura and Mitsutoshi Setou -- Animal care and tissue sample extraction for IMS / Ikuko Yao and Mitsutoshi Setou -- Preparing biological tissue sections for imaging mass spectrometry / Yuki Sugiura, Mitsutoshi Setou, and Daisuke Horigome -- Matrix application with ImagePrep / Martin Schuerenberg and Soeren-Oliver Deininger -- Method of operating AXIMA-QIT as imaging instrument / Takahiro Hayasaka -- Ion image reconstruction using BioMap software / Naofumi Hosokawa, Yuki Sugiura, and Mitsutoshi Setou -- Statistical procedure for IMS data analysis / Yuki Sugiura and Mitsutoshi Setou -- Statistical analysis of IMS dataset with ClinproTool software / Nobuhiro Zaima and Mitsutoshi Setou -- TLC-blot-MALDI-IMS / Naoko Goto-Inoue, Takao Taki, and Mitsutoshi Setou -- Applied biosystems / Tetsuo Kokaji -- Bruker Daltonics / Soeren-Oliver Deininger -- Imaging and molecular identification of biomolecules on tissue sections with AXIMA-QIT : Shimadzu Corporation / Masaru Furuta, Yuki Sugiura, and Mitsutoshi Setou -- MALDI imaging with ion-mobility MS : Waters Corporation / Motoji Oshikata ... [et al.] -- Comparison of SIMS and MALDI for mass spectrometric imaging / John S. Hammond.