Multifocus confocal Raman microspectroscopy for fast multimode vibrational imaging of living cells
Multifocus confocal Raman microspectroscopy for fast multimode vibrational imaging of living cells
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DOI:
10.1364/ol.35.004096
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发表时间:
2010-12-15
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3.6
通讯作者:
Hamaguchi, Hiro-o
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作者:
Okuno, Masanari;Hamaguchi, Hiro-o
We have developed a multifocus confocal Raman microspectroscopic system for the fast multimode vibrational imaging of living cells. It consists of an inverted microscope equipped with a microlens array, a pinhole array, a fiber bundle, and a multichannel Raman spectrometer. Forty-eight Raman spectra from 48 foci under the microscope are simultaneously obtained by using multifocus excitation and image-compression techniques. The multifocus confocal configuration suppresses the background generated from the cover glass and the cell culturing medium so that high-contrast images are obtainable with a short accumulation time. The system enables us to obtain multimode (10 different vibrational modes) vibrational images of living cells in tens of seconds with only 1 mW laser power at one focal point. This image acquisition time is more than 10 times faster than that in conventional single-focus Raman microspectroscopy. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America