Secondary ion MS imaging to relatively quantify cholesterol in the membranes of individual cells from differentially treated populations

SG Ostrowski, ME Kurczy, TP Roddy… - Analytical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) is a well-established
bioanalytical method for directly imaging the chemical distribution across single cells. Here …

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry imaging of subcellular lipid heterogeneity: Poisson counting and spatial resolution

PD Piehowski, AM Davey, ME Kurczy… - Analytical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Mass spectrometric imaging is a powerful tool to interrogate biological complexity. One such
technique, time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) imaging, has been …

MS/MS methodology to improve subcellular mapping of cholesterol using TOF-SIMS

PD Piehowski, AJ Carado, ME Kurczy… - Analytical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) can be utilized to map the
distribution of various molecules on a surface with submicrometer resolution. Much of its …

Secondary ion MS imaging of lipids in picoliter vials with a buckminsterfullerene ion source

SG Ostrowski, C Szakal, J Kozole, TP Roddy… - Analytical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Investigation of the spatial distribution of lipids in cell membranes can lead to an improved
understanding of the role of lipids in biological function and disease. Time-of-flight …

Lipid imaging with time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS)

MK Passarelli, N Winograd - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular and Cell …, 2011 - Elsevier
Fundamental advances in secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) now allow for the
examination and characterization of lipids directly from biological materials. The successful …

ToF‐SIMS imaging of lipids in cell membranes

B Johansson - Surface and Interface Analysis: An International …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) has been in use in biomedical imaging for more
than three decades and has resulted in some important biomedical discoveries. However …

Lipid diversity in cells and tissue using imaging SIMS

S Sämfors, JS Fletcher - Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Lipids are an important class of biomolecules with many roles within cells and tissue. As
targets for study, they present several challenges. They are difficult to label, as many labels …

Micrometric molecular histology of lipids by mass spectrometry imaging

D Touboul, O Laprévote, A Brunelle - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Time-Of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry is compared to other mass spectrometry
imaging techniques, and recent improvements of the experimental methods, driven by …

A cell preparation method allowing subcellular localization of cholesterol and phosphocholine with imaging TOF-SIMS

H Nygren, C Eriksson, P Malmberg, H Sahlin… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2003 - Elsevier
Imaging time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) was used for
characterization and subcellular localization of membrane lipids in leukocytes adhering to …

Influence of molecular environment on the analysis of phospholipids by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry

AG Sostarecz, DM Cannon, CM McQuaw, S Sun… - Langmuir, 2004 - ACS Publications
Understanding the influence of molecular environment on phospholipids is important in time-
of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) studies of complex systems such as …