Elemental and chemically specific X-ray fluorescence imaging of biological systems

MJ Pushie, IJ Pickering, M Korbas, MJ Hackett… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
From the perspective of a chemist, biology confers a rich variety of roles on a number of
metal ions. It is widely agreed that a large fraction of the genomic output of living things …

In situ label-free X-ray imaging for visualizing the localization of nanomedicines and subcellular architecture in intact single cells

M Cao, Y Wang, L Wang, K Zhang, Y Guan, Y Guo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the intracellular behaviors of nanomedicines and morphology variation of
subcellular architecture impacted by nanomaterial–biology (nano–bio) interactions could …

X-ray-based techniques to study the nano–bio interface

C Sanchez-Cano, RA Alvarez-Puebla, JM Abendroth… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
X-ray-based analytics are routinely applied in many fields, including physics, chemistry,
materials science, and engineering. The full potential of such techniques in the life sciences …

Bone hierarchical structure: heterogeneity and uniformity

A Rodriguez‐Palomo, M Østergaard… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Bone has a complex hierarchical structure with structural integration from nm to cm. The
understanding of bone structure is develo** rapidly due to improvements in available …

Analytical methods for imaging metals in biology: from transition metal metabolism to transition metal signaling

CM Ackerman, S Lee, CJ Chang - Analytical chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Metal elements represent some of the most fundamental chemical building blocks of life and
are required to sustain the growth, development, and sustenance of all living organisms and …

Synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence microscopy as a technique for imaging of elements in plants

PM Kopittke, T Punshon, DJ Paterson… - Plant …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the distribution of elements within plant tissues is important across a range of
fields in plant science. In this review, we examine synchrotron-based x-ray fluorescence …

The X‐ray fluorescence microscopy beamline at the Australian synchrotron

D Paterson, MD De Jonge, DL Howard… - AIP Conference …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
A hard x‐ray micro‐nanoprobe has commenced operation at the Australian Synchrotron
providing versatile x‐ray fluorescence microscopy across an incident energy range from 4 to …

X-ray microtomography in biology

R Mizutani, Y Suzuki - Micron, 2012 - Elsevier
Progress in high-resolution X-ray microtomography has provided us with a practical
approach to determining three-dimensional (3D) structures of opaque samples at …

Nanostructure-specific X-ray tomography reveals myelin levels, integrity and axon orientations in mouse and human nervous tissue

M Georgiadis, A Schroeter, Z Gao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Myelin insulates neuronal axons and enables fast signal transmission, constituting a key
component of brain development, aging and disease. Yet, myelin-specific imaging of …

Simultaneous cryo X-ray ptychographic and fluorescence microscopy of green algae

J Deng, DJ Vine, S Chen, YSG Nashed, Q **… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
Trace metals play important roles in normal and in disease-causing biological functions. X-
ray fluorescence microscopy reveals trace elements with no dependence on binding …