ReviewClinical chemistry and laboratory medicine2020
Cellular resolution in clinical MALDI mass spectrometry imaging: the latest advancements and current challenges.
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- Fingerprinting the Metabolic and Lipidomic Landscapes of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma with MALDI Imaging.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026Article
- Multiscale metabolic mapping of lung tissue via coregistered mass spectrometry and nonlinear optical imaging.Science advances · 2026Article
- Immune checkpoint crosstalk between LAG-3 and CD39/CD73 in glioblastoma: dual-pathway regulation of metabolic exhaustion and therapeutic reversal strategies.Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute · 2026Review
- Spatial metabolomics: design, pitfalls and data interpretation.The EMBO journal · 2026Article
- Cohort-Scale Spatial Autocorrelation for Tumor Prediction in Mid-Infrared Pathology and Spatial Biomarker Discovery Using MALDI Imaging Lipidomics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- MALDI Matrix: Origins, Innovations, and Frontiers.Chemical reviews · 2026Review
- Mathematical Framework for Quantifying Delocalization in MALDI-MSI via a Composite Scoring Approach.ACS measurement science au · 2026Article
- Desorption Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry Imaging (DESI-MSI) of Metabolites in Heart Samples Infected with Trypanosoma cruzi.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026Article
- MALDI matrix sublimation versus spray coating in the FluoMALDI imaging pipeline.Analytica chimica acta · 2025Article
- Advancing Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Management Through Multi-Omics Integration: Insights from Genomics, Metabolomics, and Radiomics.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Method development for correlating lipid molecular information with anatomy in C. elegans.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Applications of Nanotechnology for Spatial Omics: Biological Structures and Functions at Nanoscale Resolution.ACS nano · 2025Review
- MALDI MSI Protocol for Spatial Bottom-Up Proteomics at Single-Cell Resolution.Journal of proteome research · 2024Article
- Spatial proteomics: unveiling the multidimensional landscape of protein localization in human diseases.Proteome science · 2024Review
- Quantitative mass spectrometry imaging: therapeutics & biomolecules.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2024Review
- Recent Developments and Application of Mass Spectrometry Imaging in N-Glycosylation Studies: An Overview.Mass spectrometry (Tokyo, Japan) · 2024Review
- Spatial pharmacology using mass spectrometry imaging.Trends in pharmacological sciences · 2024Review
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Abstract
Mass spectrometry (MS) is the workhorse of metabolomics, proteomics and lipidomics. Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI), its extension to spatially resolved analysis of tissues, is a powerful tool for visualizing molecular information within the histological context of tissue. This review summarizes recent developments in MSI and highlights current challenges that remain to achieve molecular imaging at the cellular level of clinical specimens. We focus on matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)-MSI. We discuss the current status of each of the analysis steps and remaining challenges to reach the desired level of cellular imaging. Currently, analyte delocalization and degradation, matrix crystal size, laser focus restrictions and detector sensitivity are factors that are limiting spatial resolution. New sample preparation devices and laser optic systems are being developed to push the boundaries of these limitations. Furthermore, we review the processing of cellular MSI data and images, and the systematic integration of these data in the light of available algorithms and databases. We discuss roadblocks in the data analysis pipeline and show how technology from other fields can be used to overcome these. Finally, we conclude with curative and community efforts that are needed to enable contextualization of the information obtained.
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