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ArticleNano letters2015

High resolution live cell Raman imaging using subcellular organelle-targeting SERS-sensitive gold nanoparticles with highly narrow intra-nanogap.

Jeon Woong Kang, Peter T C So, Ramachandra R Dasari, Dong-Kwon Lim

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Article in Nano letters, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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75 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jeon Woong KangLaser Biomedical Research Center, G. R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, and ‡Department of Mechanical and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
Peter T C So
Ramachandra R Dasari
Dong-Kwon Lim

Funding

Wide-Field Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) multiphoton (MP) tissue imagingP41EB015871 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI SO, PETER T. · 2012 to 2021
$11.3M
In Vivo Imaging of Neuronal Plasticity in Visual CortexR01EY017656 · NEI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI NEDIVI, ELLY, SO, PETER T. · 2008 to 2014
$2.5M
Regenerative Healing Using ECM Based ScaffoldsR01NS051320 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI YANNAS, IOANNIS V · 2006 to 2009
$1.6M
High Throughput Manufacturing for Three-Dimensional Microfluidic DevicesR44EB012415 · NIBIB · FEMTOFAB, INC. · PI JANG, YUN-HO · 2011 to 2013
$849k
NEI NIH HHS 5R01EY017656-02NEI NIH HHS R01 EY017656NIBIB NIH HHS 4R44EB012415-02NIBIB NIH HHS 9P41EB015871-27NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB015871NIBIB NIH HHS R44 EB012415NINDS NIH HHS 5R01NS051320NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS051320
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a method to achieve high speed and high resolution live cell Raman images using small spherical gold nanoparticles with highly narrow intra-nanogap structures responding to NIR excitation (785 nm) and high-speed confocal Raman microscopy. The three different Raman-active molecules placed in the narrow intra-nanogap showed a strong and uniform Raman intensity in solution even under transient exposure time (10 ms) and low input power of incident laser (200 μW), which lead to obtain high-resolution single cell image within 30 s without inducing significant cell damage. The high resolution Raman image showed the distributions of gold nanoparticles for their targeted sites such as cytoplasm, mitochondria, or nucleus. The high speed Raman-based live cell imaging allowed us to monitor rapidly changing cell morphologies during cell death induced by the addition of highly toxic KCN solution to cells. These results strongly suggest that the use of SERS-active nanoparticle can greatly improve the current temporal resolution and image quality of Raman-based cell images enough to obtain the detailed cell dynamics and/or the responses of cells to potential drug molecules.

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Cell Line, TumorContrast MediaGoldHumansImage EnhancementMicroscopyMouth NeoplasmsNanoparticlesParticle SizeReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificitySpectrum Analysis, RamanSubcellular FractionsContrast MediaGolddrug-screeningintra-nanogap gold nanoparticlelive cell Raman imagingSERS

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PMID25646716
PMCPMC4356631

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