Advances in functional X-ray imaging techniques and contrast agents

H Chen, MM Rogalski, JN Anker - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
X-rays have been used for non-invasive high-resolution imaging of thick biological
specimens since their discovery in 1895. They are widely used for structural imaging of …

Soft X-ray microscopy techniques for medical and biological imaging at TwinMic—Elettra

A Gianoncelli, V Bonanni, G Gariani, F Guzzi… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Progress in nanotechnology calls for material probing techniques of high sensitivity and
resolution. Such techniques are also used for high-impact studies of nanoscale materials in …

X-ray fluorescence imaging

VV Lider - Physics-Uspekhi, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past two decades, numerous X-ray micro-beam studies have been published
addressing the nondestructive investigation of chemical element distribution in condensed …

Atomic spectrometry update—X-ray fluorescence spectrometry

M West, AT Ellis, PJ Potts, C Streli, C Vanhoof… - Journal of Analytical …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
This review demonstrates advances in XRF instrumentation, techniques and data
processing algorithms published during the last year. Pixellated detectors and EDXRF …

Visualizing metal content and intracellular distribution in primary hippocampal neurons with synchrotron X-ray fluorescence

RA Colvin, Q **, B Lai, L Kiedrowski - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Increasing evidence suggests that metal dyshomeostasis plays an important role in human
neurodegenerative diseases. Although distinctive metal distributions are described for …

Understanding metal homeostasis in primary cultured neurons. Studies using single neuron subcellular and quantitative metallomics

RA Colvin, B Lai, WR Holmes, D Lee - Metallomics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how single cell quantitative and subcellular
metallomics inform us about both the spatial distribution and cellular mechanisms of metal …

[HTML][HTML] Interactions between synchrotron radiation X-ray and biological tissues—theoretical and clinical significance

H Chen, X He, C Sheng, Y Ma, H Nie… - International journal of …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Synchrotron radiation (SR) X-ray has great potential for its applications in both diagnosis
and treatment of diseases, due to its characteristic properties including coherence …

Reducing Poisson noise and baseline drift in X-ray spectral images with bootstrap Poisson regression and robust nonparametric regression

F Zhu, B Qin, W Feng, H Wang, S Huang… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray spectral imaging provides quantitative imaging of trace elements in a biological
sample with high sensitivity. We propose a novel algorithm to promote the signal-to-noise …

Synchrotron radiation X-ray microfluorescence reveals polarized distribution of atomic elements during differentiation of pluripotent stem cells

SC Cardoso, MP Stelling, BS Paulsen, SK Rehen - PLoS One, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The mechanisms underlying pluripotency and differentiation in embryonic and
reprogrammed stem cells are unclear. In this work, we characterized the pluripotent state …

Bone marrow from blotchy mice is dispensable to regulate blood copper and aortic pathologies but required for inflammatory mediator production in LDLR-deficient …

D Harris, Y Liang, C Chen, S Li, O Patel, Z Qin - Annals of vascular surgery, 2015 - Elsevier
Background The blotchy mouse caused by mutations of ATP7A develops low blood copper
and aortic aneurysm and rupture. Although the aortic pathologies are believed primarily due …