Observation of cell dynamics by laser scanning Raman microscope

摘要

We developed a Raman microscope using a slit-scanning technique for observation of biological samples. A sample was illuminated by a line-shaped laser light, and Raman spectra were measured at different points in the line simultaneously by a spectrometer equipped with a 2D detector. The parallel detection of the Raman spectra boosts the image acquisition rate, which enable us to observe a living biological sample with high temporal and spatial resolution. We also applied a noise reduction technique using singular value decomposition. We recorded motion of intracellular components of living HeLa cells as sequential Raman images in a spectral region between 600 - 3000 cm~(-1) with the temporal resolution of 3 minutes.