Raman imaging is application of Raman sprectroscopy for medical diagnostics and bioimaging. It emerges as a promising noninvasive imaging technique in biomedical research.
2. 1921
Story...
Ref: Nature, 1921,108,367; Nature, 1921,108, 402-403.
C. V. Raman's experiments on the colour of
sea-due to molecular scattering
1871
Rayleigh scattering-colour of sea is the just
reflection of sky
Lord Rayleigh
Sir C.V. Raman in
the sculpture park of
Nehru Science
Centre, Mumbai,
India
3. Ref: Nature, 1922,109,444-445; Nature, 1928,121,501-502
Raman's monograph -molecular scattering
and quantum structure of light-get published.
1922
Story Continues...
1928
C. V. Raman and K. S. Krishnan: discovery
of Raman effect experiments on 28 Feb
1930 Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman awarded
Nobel Prize in Physics
K. S. Krishnan C. V. Raman
4. Raman Scattering
Vs
Rayleigh scattering
Raman
Effect
Rayleigh
scattering
Elastic scattering of photon
Inelastic scattering of
photon
Scattered at
lower frequency (Stokes
Raman scattering)
Scattered at higher
Frequency (Anti Stokes
Raman scattering)
Scattered at same
frequency(Rayleigh
scattering)
Intensity decreases
Ref: Atkin's Physical Chemistry, 9th
edn. Oxford University Press.
6. 1974
Ref: Chem. Phys. Lett., 1974, 26, 163-166.
Surface Enhanced
Raman Scattering(SERS)
Fleischmann et al. observed an unexpected
large Raman scattering from pyridine
adsorbed on electrochemically roughened
silver
Martin Fleischmann
(29 March 1927 – 3
August 2012)
10. Bibliometric Analysis of the
Publications & Citations Per
Year
number of citations in Raman endoscopy
number of citations inRaman imaging AND disease
Ref: Analyst,2013, 138, 3871–3884.
Courtesy:ISI Thomson Web of Science (http://wos.mimas.ac.uk/) for
the period 1992–2012
number of citations in spatially offset Raman AND disease
number of publications in Raman AND disease
number of citations in SERS AND disease
11. Ref: Chem. Rev. 2013, 113,1391-1428;
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 7085–7107
Design SERS substrate
(Au or Ag NP)
Adsorption of
Raman reporter
Protective surface
coating (PEG or
silica)
Design targetting ligand
(antibody/ DNA/organic
molecules)
How Raman Imaging?
-Design of SERS Tags
1
2 3
4
13. Theoretical calculations of the local electromagnetic near field enhancement at the laser
excitation wavelength of 632.8 nm : (a) an isolated Au nanosphere of 30 nm radius (using Mie
scattering theory) ; adjacent nanosphere dimer (interparticle distance 3 nm) with (b) interparticle
axis perpendicular and (c) parallel to the incident polarization.((b) and (c) using the FDTD
method) (d) TEM image of a Au trimer cluster encapsulated in a silica shell and (e) the
corresponding image of the calculated electromagnetic enhancement intensity profile at 632.8 nm.
Theoretical
Profile(photographs) of
Electromagnetic field......
Ref: Nano Lett., 2005, 5, 1569–1574; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 10903–10910
14. Raman Reporters for
SERS Tags???
Nitrogen containing
dye
Sulfur containing dye
Crystal violet
Malachite green isothiocyanate(MGITC)
Thio small
molecules
benzenethiol4-aminothiophenol
Rhodamine B isothiocyanate(RBITC)
15. Typical Raman
Reporters for SERS
Tags
Ref: Chem. Rev. 2013, 113,1391-1428
Type Example Linking
mode
Advantage Disadvantage
Nitrogen
containing dye
Crystal violet N- Au (Ag)
interaction
Cheap
Large Raman
cross section
Weak affinity to
metal
Weak signal
stability
Difficult surface
coating
Sulfur
containing dye
Malachite green
isothiocyanate
Rhodamine -6
-isothiocyanate
S- Au (Ag)
interaction
Strong binding
affinity
Strong binding
affinitySuitable
for surface
coating
Limited type
Hard to form Self
assembled
monolayer
Thio small
molecules
4-
aminothiophenol
benzenethiol
S- Au (Ag)
interaction
Cheap
Strong binding
affinity
Appropriate for
Multiplexing
Small Raman
cross section
17. Strategies of Bioanalysis by
SERS tags
(a)Analyte induced SERS tag
aggregation
(b)Analyte changing Raman signature of
the reporter
(c)Fabrication of gold nanoarticle gold
nanorod junction for protien detection
Thrombin
Thrombin
Binding
Aptamer
18. Analysis by SERS Tags....
Raman reporter dye
Dye labelled Gold
nanoparticle
Dye labelled Gold
nanoparticle
Gold nanoparticle
Ref:Small, 2012, 8, 707–714.
Aggregation of the nanoparticles is caused by formation of the octahedral
complex when Ni(II) is coordinated between NTA and histidine moieties
present at the particle surface
19. dipicolinic acid
(biomarker for
anthrax)
glutaric acid-
Internal standard
Ref: Anal. Chem., 2013, 85, 3297–3302.
Raman Imaging- an example
pyridine ring breathing
vibration (of dipicolinate) at
1006 cm-1
the C–H stretching
vibration (of glutaric acid)
at 2934 cm-1
Detection limit-5 ppb (30 nM)
SERS spectra of dipicolinic acid, a biomarker for Bacillus
anthracis(pathogen for anthrax) spores, measured using citrate-
reduced silver colloid and a portable 633 nm Raman spectrometer
20. Multiplexed Raman imaging
Ref: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2009, 106, 13511.
(a) Raman map of 10 different SERS particles injected subcutaneously in a nude mouse. Panels
below depict separate channels associated with each of th einjected SERS NPs. Grayscale bar to
the right depicts the Raman intensity.(b) Graph depicting five unique Raman spectra, each
associated with its own SERS batch. (c) Raman image of liver overlaid on digital photo of mouse,
showing accumulation of all five SERS batches accumulating in the liver after 24 h post i.v
injection. Panels below depict separate channels associated with each of the injected SERS NP
batches.
21. Raman x−y maps of a G.
lamblia cyst and a C.
parvum oocyst
Ref: J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43, 1147.
Optical image
Raman map of
the 1647 cm−1
RBITC peak
Raman map of
the 1360 cm−1
RBITC peak
Raman intensity key
Raman map of
the 1618 cm−1
MGITC
Raman map of
the 1175 cm−1
MGITC
The nature and natural phenomenon ia always a centre of mystery to man. Especially the colour of sea.. Rayleigh described rayleigh scatteringin 1871 and he proposed that the colour of sea is just the reflection of sky.It was during a sea voyage from India to England in 1921 that the brilliant Indian physicist C.V. Raman, another renowned experimentalist, conducted some on-board experiments which were later submitted to Nature in a letter called the ‘The Colour of the Sea’.Unable to accept Lord Rayleigh's explanation that the colour of the sea was just a refection of the colour of the sky, Raman's experiments showed that the colour of the seawas in fact a direct result of the molecular scattering of light and independent of absorption or the reflection of light from the sky.This was very closely followed by another letter to Natureconcerning the molecular scattering of light in liquids and solids
These experiments opened up a deep interest in C.V.
Raman and a new field of research on his return to Kolkata on the scattering of light as well as the publication of another article on the molecular diffraction and quantum structure of light in 1922.
Raman and collaborators such as K.S. Krishnan began a of seminal experiments concerning the scattering of light in a large number of liquids, as well as theories about the potential applications of their experiments, which culminatedin their discovery of the inelastic scattering effect named after Raman in 1928 on 28 February,and his award of the Nobel
Prize for Physics in 1930series
A SERS tag is created by attaching intrinsically strong Raman scattering molecules (called Raman reporters) to the surface of plasmon-resonant Ag or Au NPs, thereby creating a known SERS spectrum of the Raman reporter.
Then a biorecognition element such as an antibody may be added to render the tags with biostability, biocompatibility, and a specific binding feature.
Several strategies including analyte-induced SERS tag aggregation, analytes induced alteration of the reporter’s Raman signature and SERS-tag based immunoassays, and have been developed to detect ions and biomolecules