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Burchert JP, Frohn J, Rölleke U, Bruns H, Yu B, Gleber SC, Stange R, Busse M, Osterhoff M, Salditt T, Köster S. X-ray phase-contrast tomography of cells manipulated with an optical stretcher. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2024; 31:923-935. [PMID: 38861370 PMCID: PMC11226146 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577524003618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2024] [Accepted: 04/21/2024] [Indexed: 06/13/2024]
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X-rays can penetrate deeply into biological cells and thus allow for examination of their internal structures with high spatial resolution. In this study, X-ray phase-contrast imaging and tomography is combined with an X-ray-compatible optical stretcher and microfluidic sample delivery. Using this setup, individual cells can be kept in suspension while they are examined with the X-ray beam at a synchrotron. From the recorded holograms, 2D phase shift images that are proportional to the projected local electron density of the investigated cell can be calculated. From the tomographic reconstruction of multiple such projections the 3D electron density can be obtained. The cells can thus be studied in a hydrated or even living state, thus avoiding artifacts from freezing, drying or embedding, and can in principle also be subjected to different sample environments or mechanical strains. This combination of techniques is applied to living as well as fixed and stained NIH3T3 mouse fibroblasts and the effect of the beam energy on the phase shifts is investigated. Furthermore, a 3D algebraic reconstruction scheme and a dedicated mathematical description is used to follow the motion of the trapped cells in the optical stretcher for multiple rotations.
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- Jan-Philipp Burchert
- Institute for X-ray PhysicsUniversity of GöttingenFriedrich-Hund-Platz 137077GöttingenGermany
- Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells (MBExC)University of GöttingenGermany
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- Institute for X-ray PhysicsUniversity of GöttingenFriedrich-Hund-Platz 137077GöttingenGermany
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- Institute for X-ray PhysicsUniversity of GöttingenFriedrich-Hund-Platz 137077GöttingenGermany
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- Institute for X-ray PhysicsUniversity of GöttingenFriedrich-Hund-Platz 137077GöttingenGermany
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- Institute for X-ray PhysicsUniversity of GöttingenFriedrich-Hund-Platz 137077GöttingenGermany
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- Institute for X-ray PhysicsUniversity of GöttingenFriedrich-Hund-Platz 137077GöttingenGermany
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- Biomedical Physics, School of ScienceTechnical University MunichBoltzmannstraße 1185748GarchingGermany
- Munich Institute of Biomedical EngineeringTechnical University MunichBoltzmannstraße 1185748GarchingGermany
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- Institute for X-ray PhysicsUniversity of GöttingenFriedrich-Hund-Platz 137077GöttingenGermany
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- Institute for X-ray PhysicsUniversity of GöttingenFriedrich-Hund-Platz 137077GöttingenGermany
- Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells (MBExC)University of GöttingenGermany
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- Institute for X-ray PhysicsUniversity of GöttingenFriedrich-Hund-Platz 137077GöttingenGermany
- Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells (MBExC)University of GöttingenGermany
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Chen Z, Chen N, Yang Y, Fan W. Micro-computed tomographic evaluation on the quality of single-cone obturation using a modified passive-deflation sealer injection needle: an in vitro study. BMC Oral Health 2024; 24:476. [PMID: 38643094 PMCID: PMC11031986 DOI: 10.1186/s12903-024-04232-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/22/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVES This study aimed to design a modified passive-deflation sealer injection needle and investigate its ability to improve obturation quality of single-cone technique through assessing the distribution of voids in root canals using micro-computed tomography (micro-CT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty-eight mandibular incisors were divided into eight groups (n = 6), according to the taper of root canal preparation (0.06 or 0.04), the needle used for sealer injection (modified or commercial iRoot SP injection needle), and the obturation method (iRoot SP sealer-only or single-cone obturation). After obturation, each specimen was scanned by micro-CT. The volumetric percentage and distribution of all voids were first analyzed and compared among groups, then the open and closed voids were separately analyzed and compared among single-cone obturation groups. RESULTS Compared to commercial needle groups, modified needle groups showed much less voids, especially in the apical root canal part (P < 0.05). Besides, the modified needle groups produced much less open voids than commercial needle groups despite the root canal taper (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS The modified passive deflation sealer injection needle could effectively improve the quality of single-cone obturation through reducing intra-canal voids, especially open voids throughout the root canal, thus might possibly be developed as an effective intra-canal sealer delivering instrument.
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- Zhuo Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
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Pan D, Fan J, Nie Z, Sun Z, Zhang J, Tong Y, He B, Song C, Kohmura Y, Yabashi M, Ishikawa T, Shen Y, Jiang H. Quantitative analysis of the effect of radiation on mitochondria structure using coherent diffraction imaging with a clustering algorithm. IUCRJ 2022; 9:223-230. [PMID: 35371506 PMCID: PMC8895015 DOI: 10.1107/s2052252521012963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Radiation damage and a low signal-to-noise ratio are the primary factors that limit spatial resolution in coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) of biomaterials using X-ray sources. Introduced here is a clustering algorithm named ConvRe based on deep learning, and it is applied to obtain accurate and consistent image reconstruction from noisy diffraction patterns of weakly scattering biomaterials. To investigate the impact of X-ray radiation on soft biomaterials, CDI experiments were performed on mitochondria from human embryonic kidney cells using synchrotron radiation. Benefiting from the new algorithm, structural changes in the mitochondria induced by X-ray radiation damage were quantitatively characterized and analysed at the nanoscale with different radiation doses. This work also provides a promising approach for improving the imaging quality of biomaterials with XFEL-based plane-wave CDI.
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- Dan Pan
- School of Physical Science and Technology and Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Shanghai 201210, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology and Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Shanghai 201210, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology and College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300071, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology and Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Shanghai 201210, People’s Republic of China
- Photon Science Division, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- School of Physical Science and Technology and Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Shanghai 201210, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology and Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Shanghai 201210, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology and Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Shanghai 201210, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, South Korea
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- SPring-8 Center, RIKEN, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- SPring-8 Center, RIKEN, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- SPring-8 Center, RIKEN, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology and College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300071, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology and Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Shanghai 201210, People’s Republic of China
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Stochastic chromatin packing of 3D mitotic chromosomes revealed by coherent X-rays. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2109921118. [PMID: 34750262 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109921118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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DNA molecules are atomic-scale information storage molecules that promote reliable information transfer via fault-free repetitions of replications and transcriptions. Remarkable accuracy of compacting a few-meters-long DNA into a micrometer-scale object, and the reverse, makes the chromosome one of the most intriguing structures from both physical and biological viewpoints. However, its three-dimensional (3D) structure remains elusive with challenges in observing native structures of specimens at tens-of-nanometers resolution. Here, using cryogenic coherent X-ray diffraction imaging, we succeeded in obtaining nanoscale 3D structures of metaphase chromosomes that exhibited a random distribution of electron density without characteristics of high-order folding structures. Scaling analysis of the chromosomes, compared with a model structure having the same density profile as the experimental results, has discovered the fractal nature of density distributions. Quantitative 3D density maps, corroborated by molecular dynamics simulations, reveal that internal structures of chromosomes conform to diffusion-limited aggregation behavior, which indicates that 3D chromatin packing occurs via stochastic processes.
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Biominerals such as seashells, coral skeletons, bone, and tooth enamel are optically anisotropic crystalline materials with unique nanoscale and microscale organization that translates into exceptional macroscopic mechanical properties, providing inspiration for engineering new and superior biomimetic structures. Using Seriatopora aculeata coral skeleton as a model, here, we experimentally demonstrate X-ray linear dichroic ptychography and map the c-axis orientations of the aragonite (CaCO3) crystals. Linear dichroic phase imaging at the oxygen K-edge energy shows strong polarization-dependent contrast and reveals the presence of both narrow (<35°) and wide (>35°) c-axis angular spread in the coral samples. These X-ray ptychography results are corroborated by four-dimensional (4D) scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) on the same samples. Evidence of co-oriented, but disconnected, corallite subdomains indicates jagged crystal boundaries consistent with formation by amorphous nanoparticle attachment. We expect that the combination of X-ray linear dichroic ptychography and 4D STEM could be an important multimodal tool to study nano-crystallites, interfaces, nucleation, and mineral growth of optically anisotropic materials at multiple length scales.
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X-Ray Structural Analysis of Single Adult Cardiomyocytes: Tomographic Imaging and Microdiffraction. Biophys J 2020; 119:1309-1323. [PMID: 32937109 PMCID: PMC7567981 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Revised: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/17/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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We present a multiscale imaging approach to characterize the structure of isolated adult murine cardiomyocytes based on a combination of full-field three-dimensional coherent x-ray imaging and scanning x-ray diffraction. Using these modalities, we probe the structure from the molecular to the cellular scale. Holographic projection images on freeze-dried cells have been recorded using highly coherent and divergent x-ray waveguide radiation. Phase retrieval and tomographic reconstruction then yield the three-dimensional electron density distribution with a voxel size below 50 nm. In the reconstruction volume, myofibrils, sarcomeric organization, and mitochondria can be visualized and quantified within a single cell without sectioning. Next, we use microfocusing optics by compound refractive lenses to probe the diffraction signal of the actomyosin lattice. Comparison between recordings of chemically fixed and untreated, living cells indicate that the characteristic lattice distances shrink by ∼10% upon fixation.
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Nave C. The achievable resolution for X-ray imaging of cells and other soft biological material. IUCRJ 2020; 7:393-403. [PMID: 32431823 PMCID: PMC7201285 DOI: 10.1107/s2052252520002262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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X-ray imaging of soft materials is often difficult because of the low contrast of the components. This particularly applies to frozen hydrated biological cells where the feature of interest can have a similar density to the surroundings. As a consequence, a high dose is often required to achieve the desired resolution. However, the maximum dose that a specimen can tolerate is limited by radiation damage. Results from 3D coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) of frozen hydrated specimens have given resolutions of ∼80 nm compared with the expected resolution of 10 nm predicted from theoretical considerations for identifying a protein embedded in water. Possible explanations for this include the inapplicability of the dose-fractionation theorem, the difficulty of phase determination, an overall object-size dependence on the required fluence and dose, a low contrast within the biological cell, insufficient exposure, and a variety of practical difficulties such as scattering from surrounding material. A recent article [Villaneuva-Perez et al. (2018), Optica, 5, 450-457] concluded that imaging by Compton scattering gave a large dose advantage compared with CDI because of the object-size dependence for CDI. An object-size dependence would severely limit the applicability of CDI and perhaps related coherence-based methods for structural studies. This article specifically includes the overall object size in the analysis of the fluence and dose requirements for coherent imaging in order to investigate whether there is a dependence on object size. The applicability of the dose-fractionation theorem is also discussed. The analysis is extended to absorption-based imaging and imaging by incoherent scattering (Compton) and fluorescence. This article includes analysis of the dose required for imaging specific low-contrast cellular organelles as well as for protein against water. This article concludes that for both absorption-based and coherent diffraction imaging, the dose-fractionation theorem applies and the required dose is independent of the overall size of the object. For incoherent-imaging methods such as Compton scattering, the required dose depends on the X-ray path length through the specimen. For all three types of imaging, the dependence of fluence and dose on a resolution d goes as 1/d 4 when imaging uniform-density voxels. The independence of CDI on object size means that there is no advantage for Compton scattering over coherent-based imaging methods. The most optimistic estimate of achievable resolution is 3 nm for imaging protein molecules in water/ice using lensless imaging methods in the water window. However, the attainable resolution depends on a variety of assumptions including the model for radiation damage as a function of resolution, the efficiency of any phase-retrieval process, the actual contrast of the feature of interest within the cell and the definition of resolution itself. There is insufficient observational information available regarding the most appropriate model for radiation damage in frozen hydrated biological material. It is advocated that, in order to compare theory with experiment, standard methods of reporting results covering parameters such as the feature examined (e.g. which cellular organelle), resolution, contrast, depth of the material (for 2D), estimate of noise and dose should be adopted.
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- Colin Nave
- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
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Nakasako M, Kobayashi A, Takayama Y, Asakura K, Oide M, Okajima K, Oroguchi T, Yamamoto M. Methods and application of coherent X-ray diffraction imaging of noncrystalline particles. Biophys Rev 2020; 12:541-567. [PMID: 32180121 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-020-00690-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 03/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Microscopic imaging techniques have been developed to visualize events occurring in biological cells. Coherent X-ray diffraction imaging is one of the techniques applicable to structural analyses of cells and organelles, which have never been crystallized. In the experiment, a single noncrystalline particle is illuminated by an X-ray beam with almost complete spatial coherence. The structure of the particle projected along the direction of the beam is, in principle, retrieved from a finely recorded diffraction pattern alone by using iterative phase-retrieval algorithms. Here, we describe fundamental theory and experimental methods of coherent X-ray diffraction imaging and the recent application in structural studies of noncrystalline specimens by using X-rays available at Super Photon Ring of 8-Gev and SPring-8 Angstrom Compact Free Electron Laser in Japan.
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- Masayoshi Nakasako
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-8522, Japan.
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kohto, Sayo, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan.
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-8522, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kohto, Sayo, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-8522, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kohto, Sayo, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
- Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Kouto, Kamigori-cho, Ako-gun, Hyogo, 678-1297, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-8522, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kohto, Sayo, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-8522, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kohto, Sayo, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-8522, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kohto, Sayo, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-8522, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kohto, Sayo, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kohto, Sayo, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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Narayanan T, Konovalov O. Synchrotron Scattering Methods for Nanomaterials and Soft Matter Research. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 13:E752. [PMID: 32041363 PMCID: PMC7040635 DOI: 10.3390/ma13030752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2019] [Revised: 01/29/2020] [Accepted: 01/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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This article aims to provide an overview of broad range of applications of synchrotron scattering methods in the investigation of nanoscale materials. These scattering techniques allow the elucidation of the structure and dynamics of nanomaterials from sub-nm to micron size scales and down to sub-millisecond time ranges both in bulk and at interfaces. A major advantage of scattering methods is that they provide the ensemble averaged information under in situ and operando conditions. As a result, they are complementary to various imaging techniques which reveal more local information. Scattering methods are particularly suitable for probing buried structures that are difficult to image. Although, many qualitative features can be directly extracted from scattering data, derivation of detailed structural and dynamical information requires quantitative modeling. The fourth-generation synchrotron sources open new possibilities for investigating these complex systems by exploiting the enhanced brightness and coherence properties of X-rays.
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Bernhardt M, Nicolas JD, Osterhoff M, Mittelstädt H, Reuss M, Harke B, Wittmeier A, Sprung M, Köster S, Salditt T. A beamline-compatible STED microscope for combined visible-light and X-ray studies of biological matter. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2019; 26:1144-1151. [PMID: 31274438 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577519004089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2018] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A dedicated stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscope had been designed and implemented into the Göttingen Instrument for Nano-Imaging with X-rays (GINIX) at the synchrotron beamline P10 of the PETRA III storage ring (DESY, Hamburg). The microscope was installed on the same optical table used for X-ray holography and scanning small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). Scanning SAXS was implemented with the Kirkpatrick-Baez (KB) nano-focusing optics of GINIX, while X-ray holography used a combined KB and X-ray waveguide optical system for full-field projection recordings at a defocus position of the object. The STED optical axis was aligned (anti-)parallel to the focused synchrotron beam and was laterally displaced from the KB focus. This close proximity between the STED and the X-ray probe enabled in situ combined recordings on the same biological cell, tissue or any other biomolecular sample, using the same environment and mounting. Here, the instrumentation and experimental details of this correlative microscopy approach are described, as first published in our preceding work [Bernhardt et al. (2018), Nat. Commun. 9, 3641], and the capabilities of correlative STED microscopy, X-ray holography and scanning SAXS are illustrated by presenting additional datasets on cardiac tissue cells with labeled actin cytoskeleton.
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- Marten Bernhardt
- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Abberior Instruments, Hans-Adolf-Krebs-Weg 1, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Abberior Instruments, Hans-Adolf-Krebs-Weg 1, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Abberior Instruments, Hans-Adolf-Krebs-Weg 1, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestrasse 47c, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Chushkin Y, Zontone F, Cherkas O, Gibaud A. Quantitative nanotomography of amorphous and polycrystalline samples using coherent X-ray diffraction. J Appl Crystallogr 2019. [DOI: 10.1107/s1600576719004394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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This article presents a combined approach where quantitative forward-scattering coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) is supported by crystal diffraction using 8.1 keV synchrotron X-ray radiation. The method allows the determination of the morphology, mass density and crystallinity of an isolated microscopic specimen. This approach is tested on three homogeneous samples made of different materials with different degrees of crystallinity. The mass density and morphology are revealed using three-dimensional coherent diffraction imaging with a resolution better than 36 nm. The crystallinity is extracted from the diffraction profiles measured simultaneously with coherent diffraction patterns. The presented approach extends CDI to structural characterization of samples when crystallinity aspects are of interest.
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Beuvier T, Probert I, Beaufort L, Suchéras-Marx B, Chushkin Y, Zontone F, Gibaud A. X-ray nanotomography of coccolithophores reveals that coccolith mass and segment number correlate with grid size. Nat Commun 2019; 10:751. [PMID: 30765698 PMCID: PMC6375944 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08635-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2018] [Accepted: 01/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Coccolithophores of the Noëlaerhabdaceae family are covered by imbricated coccoliths, each composed of multiple calcite crystals radially distributed around the periphery of a grid. The factors that determine coccolith size remain obscure. Here, we used synchrotron-based three-dimensional Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging to study coccoliths of 7 species of Gephyrocapsa, Emiliania and Reticulofenestra with a resolution close to 30 nm. Segmentation of 45 coccoliths revealed remarkable size, mass and segment number variations, even within single coccospheres. In particular, we observed that coccolith mass correlates with grid perimeter which scales linearly with crystal number. Our results indirectly support the idea that coccolith mass is determined in the coccolith vesicle by the size of the organic base plate scale (OBPS) around which R-unit nucleation occurs every 110–120 nm. The curvation of coccoliths allows inference of a positive correlation between cell nucleus, OBPS and coccolith sizes. Coccolithophores are one of the most abundant phytoplankton and calcifying organisms, well-known to produce intricate calcareous exoskeletons made of coccoliths. Here the authors show, by using X-ray nanotomography, the dependence of the grid size on the calcite nucleation site number and on the mass of coccoliths.
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- T Beuvier
- LUNAM, IMMM, UMR 6283 CNRS, Faculté des Sciences, 72085, Le MANS Cedex 09, France. .,European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71, avenue des Martyrs, 38000, Grenoble, France.
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- Sorbonne Université / CNRS, Roscoff Culture Collection, FR2424, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, 29680, Roscoff, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71, avenue des Martyrs, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71, avenue des Martyrs, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- LUNAM, IMMM, UMR 6283 CNRS, Faculté des Sciences, 72085, Le MANS Cedex 09, France.
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Lunin VY, Lunina NL, Petrova TE, Baumstark MW, Urzhumtsev AG. Mask-based approach to phasing of single-particle diffraction data. II. Likelihood-based selection criteria. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D-STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2019; 75:79-89. [DOI: 10.1107/s2059798318016959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2018] [Accepted: 11/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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A new type of mask-selection criterion is suggested for mask-based phasing. In this phasing approach, a large number of connected molecular masks are randomly generated. Structure-factor phases corresponding to a trial mask are accepted as an admissible solution of the phase problem if the mask satisfies some specified selection rules that are key to success. The admissible phase sets are aligned and averaged to give a preliminary solution of the phase problem. The new selection rule is based on the likelihood of the generated mask. It is defined as the probability of reproducing the observed structure-factor magnitudes by placing atoms randomly into the mask. While the result of the direct comparison of mask structure-factor magnitudes with observed ones using a correlation coefficient is highly dominated by a few very strong low-resolution reflections, a new method gives higher weight to relatively weak high-resolution reflections that allows them to be phased accurately. This mask-based phasing procedure with likelihood-based selection has been applied to simulated single-particle diffraction data of the photosystem II monomer. The phase set obtained resulted in a 16 Å resolution Fourier synthesis (more than 4000 reflections) with 98% correlation with the exact phase set and 69% correlation for about 2000 reflections in the highest resolution shell (20–16 Å). This work also addresses another essential problem of phasing methods, namely adequate estimation of the resolution achieved. A model-trapping analysis of the phase sets obtained by the mask-based phasing procedure suggests that the widely used `50% shell correlation' criterion may be too optimistic in some cases.
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Kobayashi A, Takayama Y, Okajima K, Oide M, Yamamoto T, Sekiguchi Y, Oroguchi T, Nakasako M, Kohmura Y, Yamamoto M, Hoshi T, Torizuka Y. Diffraction apparatus and procedure in tomography X-ray diffraction imaging for biological cells at cryogenic temperature using synchrotron X-ray radiation. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2018; 25:1803-1818. [PMID: 30407193 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577518012687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Accepted: 09/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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X-ray diffraction imaging is a technique for visualizing the structure of biological cells. In X-ray diffraction imaging experiments using synchrotron radiation, cryogenic conditions are necessary in order to reduce radiation damage in the biological cells. Frozen-hydrated biological specimens kept at cryogenic temperatures are also free from drying and bubbling, which occurs in wet specimens under vacuum conditions. In a previous study, the diffraction apparatus KOTOBUKI-1 [Nakasako et al. (2013), Rev. Sci. Instrum. 84, 093705] was constructed for X-ray diffraction imaging at cryogenic temperatures by utilizing a cryogenic pot, which is a cooling device developed in low-temperature physics. In this study a new cryogenic pot, suitable for tomography experiments, has been developed. The pot can rotate a biological cell over an angular range of ±170° against the direction of the incident X-ray beam. Herein, the details and the performance of the pot and miscellaneous devices are reported, along with established experimental procedures including specimen preparation. The apparatus has been used in tomography experiments for visualizing the three-dimensional structure of a Cyanidioschyzon merolae cell with an approximate size of 5 µm at a resolution of 136 nm. Based on the experimental results, the necessary improvements for future experiments and the resolution limit achievable under experimental conditions within a maximum tolerable dose are discussed.
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- Amane Kobayashi
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- RIGAKU-Aihara Seiki, 2-24 Higasimatsubara, Hakonegasaki, Mizuho-cho, Nishitama-gun, Tokyo 190-1222, Japan
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- RIGAKU-Aihara Seiki, 2-24 Higasimatsubara, Hakonegasaki, Mizuho-cho, Nishitama-gun, Tokyo 190-1222, Japan
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Bernhardt M, Nicolas JD, Osterhoff M, Mittelstädt H, Reuss M, Harke B, Wittmeier A, Sprung M, Köster S, Salditt T. Correlative microscopy approach for biology using X-ray holography, X-ray scanning diffraction and STED microscopy. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3641. [PMID: 30194418 PMCID: PMC6128893 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05885-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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We present a correlative microscopy approach for biology based on holographic X-ray imaging, X-ray scanning diffraction, and stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy. All modalities are combined into the same synchrotron endstation. In this way, labeled and unlabeled structures in cells are visualized in a complementary manner. We map out the fluorescently labeled actin cytoskeleton in heart tissue cells and superimpose the data with phase maps from X-ray holography. Furthermore, an array of local far-field diffraction patterns is recorded in the regime of small-angle X-ray scattering (scanning SAXS), which can be interpreted in terms of biomolecular shape and spatial correlations of all contributing scattering constituents. We find that principal directions of anisotropic diffraction patterns coincide to a certain degree with the actin fiber directions and that actin stands out in the phase maps from holographic recordings. In situ STED recordings are proposed to formulate models for diffraction data based on co-localization constraints.
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- M Bernhardt
- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Abberior Instruments, Hans-Adolf-Krebs-Weg 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Abberior Instruments, Hans-Adolf-Krebs-Weg 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Abberior Instruments, Hans-Adolf-Krebs-Weg 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestraße 47c, D-22607, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany.
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Use of 3D imaging for providing insights into high-order structure of mitotic chromosomes. Chromosoma 2018; 128:7-13. [PMID: 30175387 PMCID: PMC6394650 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-018-0678-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2018] [Revised: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 07/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The high-order structure of metaphase chromosomes remains still under investigation, especially the 30-nm structure that is still controversial. Advanced 3D imaging has provided useful information for our understanding of this detailed structure. It is evident that new technologies together with improved sample preparations and image analyses should be adequately combined. This mini review highlights 3D imaging used for chromosome analysis so far with future imaging directions also highlighted.
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Nave C. A comparison of absorption and phase contrast for X-ray imaging of biological cells. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2018; 25:1490-1504. [PMID: 30179189 PMCID: PMC6140389 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577518009566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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X-ray imaging allows biological cells to be examined at a higher resolution than possible with visible light and without some of the preparation difficulties associated with electron microscopy of thick samples. The most used and developed technique is absorption contrast imaging in the water window which exploits the contrast between carbon and oxygen at an energy of around 500 eV. A variety of phase contrast techniques are also being developed. In general these operate at a higher energy, enabling thicker cells to be examined and, in some cases, can be combined with X-ray fluorescence imaging to locate specific metals. The various methods are based on the differences between the complex refractive indices of the cellular components and the surrounding cytosol or nucleosol, the fluids present in the cellular cytoplasm and nucleus. The refractive indices can be calculated from the atomic composition and density of the components. These in turn can be obtained from published measurements using techniques such as chemical analysis, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray imaging at selected energies. As examples, the refractive indices of heterochromatin, inner mitochondrial membranes, the neutral core of lipid droplets, starch granules, cytosol and nucleosol are calculated. The refractive index calculations enable the required doses and fluences to be obtained to provide images with sufficient statistical significance, for X-ray energies between 200 and 4000 eV. The statistical significance (e.g. the Rose criterion) for various requirements is discussed. The calculations reveal why some cellular components are more visible by absorption contrast and why much greater exposure times are required to see some cellular components. A comparison of phase contrast as a function of photon energy with absorption contrast in the water window is provided and it is shown that much higher doses are generally required for the phase contrast measurements. This particularly applies to those components with a high carbon content but with a mass density similar to the surrounding cytosol or nucleosol. The results provide guidance for the most appropriate conditions for X-ray imaging of individual cellular components within cells of various thicknesses.
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- Colin Nave
- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK
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Sung D, Jung C, Cho BG, Jo W, Han HS, Lee KS, Bhat V, Farmer B, De Long LE, Lee KB, Keavney DJ, Lee DR, Song C. Imaging the magnetic structures of artificial quasicrystal magnets using resonant coherent diffraction of circularly polarized X-rays. NANOSCALE 2018; 10:13159-13164. [PMID: 29963676 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr03733g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Unraveling nanoscale spin structures has long been an important activity addressing various scientific interests, that are also readily adaptable to technological applications. This has invigorated the development of versatile nanoprobes suitable for imaging specimens under native conditions. Here we have demonstrated the resonant coherent diffraction of an artificial quasicrystal magnet with circularly polarized X-rays. The nanoscale magnetic structure was revealed from X-ray speckle patterns by comparing with micromagnetic simulations, as a step toward understanding the intricate relationship between the chemical and spin structures in an aperiodic quasicrystal lattice. Femtosecond X-ray pulses from free electron lasers are expected to immediately extend the current work to nanoscale structure investigations of ultrafast spin dynamics, surpassing the present spatio-temporal resolution.
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- Daeho Sung
- Department of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang 37673, Korea.
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Takayama Y, Takami Y, Fukuda K, Miyagawa T, Kagoshima Y. Atmospheric coherent X-ray diffraction imaging for in situ structural analysis at SPring-8 Hyogo beamline BL24XU. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2018; 25:1229-1237. [PMID: 29979186 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577518006410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Accepted: 04/26/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Coherent X-ray diffraction imaging (CXDI) is a promising technique for non-destructive structural analysis of micrometre-sized non-crystalline samples at nanometre resolutions. This article describes an atmospheric CXDI system developed at SPring-8 Hyogo beamline BL24XU for in situ structural analysis and designed for experiments at a photon energy of 8 keV. This relatively high X-ray energy enables experiments to be conducted under ambient atmospheric conditions, which is advantageous for the visualization of samples in native states. The illumination condition with pinhole-slit optics is optimized according to wave propagation calculations based on the Fresnel-Kirchhoff diffraction formula so that the sample is irradiated by X-rays with a plane wavefront and high photon flux of ∼1 × 1010 photons/16 µmø(FWHM)/s. This work demonstrates the imaging performance of the atmospheric CXDI system by visualizing internal voids of sub-micrometre-sized colloidal gold particles at a resolution of 29.1 nm. A CXDI experiment with a single macroporous silica particle under controlled humidity was also performed by installing a home-made humidity control device in the system. The in situ observation of changes in diffraction patterns according to humidity variation and reconstruction of projected electron-density maps at 5.2% RH (relative humidity) and 82.6% RH at resolutions of 133 and 217 nm, respectively, were accomplished.
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- Yuki Takayama
- Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Kouto, Kamigori, Ako, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan
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- Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Kouto, Kamigori, Ako, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan
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- Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Kouto, Kamigori, Ako, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan
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- Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Kouto, Kamigori, Ako, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan
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- Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Kouto, Kamigori, Ako, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan
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Skjønsfjell ETB, Chushkin Y, Zontone F, Breiby DW. In situ coherent X-ray diffraction imaging of radiation-induced mass loss in metal-polymer composite spheres. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2018; 25:1162-1171. [PMID: 29979178 DOI: 10.1107/s160057751800588x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2017] [Accepted: 04/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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A major limitation to the use of coherent X-ray diffraction imaging (CXDI) for imaging soft materials like polymers and biological tissue is that the radiation can cause extensive damage to the sample under investigation. In this study, CXDI has been used to monitor radiation-induced structural changes in metal-coated poly(methyl methacrylate) microspheres. Using a coherent undulator X-ray beam with 8.10 keV photon energy, 14 tomograms at a resolution of ∼30 nm were measured consecutively, which resulted in an accumulated dose of 30 GGy. The three-dimensional images confirmed that the polymer core was strongly affected by the absorbed dose, giving pronounced mass loss. Specifically, as the metal-polymer composite was exposed to the X-ray beam, a bubble-like region of reduced density grew within the composite, almost filling the entire volume within the thin metallic shell in the last tomogram. The bubble seemed to have its initiation point at a hole in the metal coating, emphasizing that the free polymer surface plays an important role in the degradation process. The irradiation of an uncoated polystyrene microsphere gave further evidence for mass loss at the free surface as the radius decreased with increased dose. The CXDI study was complemented by X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, which proved efficient in establishing exposure dose limits. Our results demonstrate that radiation-induced structural changes at the tens of nanometer scale in soft materials can be followed as a function of dose, which is important for the further development of soft-matter technology.
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- The European Synchrotron, CS 40220, 38043 Grenoble, France
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- Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Høgskoleringen 5, Trondheim 7491, Norway
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Pryor A, Rana A, Xu R, Rodriguez JA, Yang Y, Gallagher-Jones M, Jiang H, Kanhaiya K, Nathanson M, Park J, Kim S, Kim S, Nam D, Yue Y, Fan J, Sun Z, Zhang B, Gardner DF, Dias CSB, Joti Y, Hatsui T, Kameshima T, Inubushi Y, Tono K, Lee JY, Yabashi M, Song C, Ishikawa T, Kapteyn HC, Murnane MM, Heinz H, Miao J. Single-shot 3D coherent diffractive imaging of core-shell nanoparticles with elemental specificity. Sci Rep 2018; 8:8284. [PMID: 29844398 PMCID: PMC5974371 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-26182-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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We report 3D coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) of Au/Pd core-shell nanoparticles with 6.1 nm spatial resolution with elemental specificity. We measured single-shot diffraction patterns of the nanoparticles using intense x-ray free electron laser pulses. By exploiting the curvature of the Ewald sphere and the symmetry of the nanoparticle, we reconstructed the 3D electron density of 34 core-shell structures from these diffraction patterns. To extract 3D structural information beyond the diffraction signal, we implemented a super-resolution technique by taking advantage of CDI’s quantitative reconstruction capabilities. We used high-resolution model fitting to determine the Au core size and the Pd shell thickness to be 65.0 ± 1.0 nm and 4.0 ± 0.5 nm, respectively. We also identified the 3D elemental distribution inside the nanoparticles with an accuracy of 3%. To further examine the model fitting procedure, we simulated noisy diffraction patterns from a Au/Pd core-shell model and a solid Au model and confirmed the validity of the method. We anticipate this super-resolution CDI method can be generally used for quantitative 3D imaging of symmetrical nanostructures with elemental specificity.
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- Alan Pryor
- Department of Physics & Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan.,Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang, 790-784, South Korea
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan.,Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang, 790-784, South Korea
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan.,Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang, 790-784, South Korea
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan.,Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 790-784, South Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore, 119260, Singapore
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China
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- Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore, 119260, Singapore
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan.,Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 790-784, South Korea
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
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Tyree TJ, Dan R, Thorne RE. Density and electron density of aqueous cryoprotectant solutions at cryogenic temperatures for optimized cryoprotection and diffraction contrast. Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol 2018; 74:471-479. [PMID: 29717718 PMCID: PMC5930352 DOI: 10.1107/s2059798318003078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2017] [Accepted: 02/22/2018] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The glass-phase densities at T = 77 K of aqueous solutions of the common cryoprotective agents (CPAs) methanol, ethanol, 2-propanol, glycerol, 2-methyl-2,4-pentanediol (MPD), ethylene glycol, polyethylene glycol 200 and polypropylene glycol 425 were measured as a function of CPA concentration. Individual drops with volumes as small as ∼65 pl were rapidly cooled to achieve the glass phase, and their densities at T = 77 K were determined by cryoflotation. These densities were used to determine the glass-phase electron density of each solution and its volume thermal contraction between room temperature and 77 K. When combined with data for the critical cooling rates required to achieve the glass phase versus CPA concentration, these yield alternative measures of cryoprotectant effectiveness. These reference data will aid in minimizing sample stresses and mechanical damage in cryocrystallography, in cryogenic temperature X-ray imaging and in vitrification-based cryopreservation protocols, and in maximizing electron-density contrast between cryoprotectant solutions and biomolecules in cryogenic temperature small-angle X-ray scattering experiments and cryo-electron microscopy.
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- Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Miao J. Multi-model imaging of the interaction of nanomaterials with cells. IUCRJ 2018; 5:122-123. [PMID: 29765600 PMCID: PMC5947715 DOI: 10.1107/s2052252518003548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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A multi-model X-ray imaging approach was implemented to probe the interaction of nanomaterials with a mammalian cell in three dimensions. With further developments, this approach could have an impact on nanomedicine and nanotoxicology.
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- Jianwei Miao
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Rose M, Senkbeil T, von Gundlach AR, Stuhr S, Rumancev C, Dzhigaev D, Besedin I, Skopintsev P, Loetgering L, Viefhaus J, Rosenhahn A, Vartanyants IA. Quantitative ptychographic bio-imaging in the water window. OPTICS EXPRESS 2018; 26:1237-1254. [PMID: 29402000 DOI: 10.1364/oe.26.001237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 11/05/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Coherent X-ray ptychography is a tool for highly dose efficient lensless nano-imaging of biological samples. We have used partially coherent soft X-ray synchrotron radiation to obtain a quantitative image of a laterally extended, dried, and unstained fibroblast cell by ptychography. We used data with and without a beam stop that allowed us to measure coherent diffraction with a high-dynamic range of 1.7·106. As a quantitative result, we obtained the refractive index values for two regions of the cell with respect to a reference area. Due to the photon energy in the water window we obtained an extremely high contrast of 53% at 71 nm half-period resolution. The dose applied in our experiment was 9.5·104 Gy and is well below the radiation damage threshold. The concept for dynamic range improvement for low dynamic range detectors with a beam stop opens the path for high resolution nano-imaging of a variety of samples including cryo-preserved, hydrated and unstained biological cells.
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Current Status of Single Particle Imaging with X-ray Lasers. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/app8010132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Multiple beam ptychography for large field-of-view, high throughput, quantitative phase contrast imaging. Ultramicroscopy 2018; 184:164-171. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2017.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2016] [Revised: 07/25/2017] [Accepted: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Frank V, Chushkin Y, Fröhlich B, Abuillan W, Rieger H, Becker AS, Yamamoto A, Rossetti FF, Kaufmann S, Lanzer M, Zontone F, Tanaka M. Lensless Tomographic Imaging of Near Surface Structures of Frozen Hydrated Malaria-Infected Human Erythrocytes by Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy. Sci Rep 2017; 7:14081. [PMID: 29074975 PMCID: PMC5658481 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-14586-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2017] [Accepted: 10/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Lensless, coherent X-ray diffraction microscopy has been drawing considerable attentions for tomographic imaging of whole human cells. In this study, we performed cryogenic coherent X-ray diffraction imaging of human erythrocytes with and without malaria infection. To shed light on structural features near the surface, “ghost cells” were prepared by the removal of cytoplasm. From two-dimensional images, we found that the surface of erythrocytes after 32 h of infection became much rougher compared to that of healthy, uninfected erythrocytes. The Gaussian roughness of an infected erythrocyte surface (69 nm) is about two times larger than that of an uninfected one (31 nm), reflecting the formation of protein knobs on infected erythrocyte surfaces. Three-dimensional tomography further enables to obtain images of the whole cells with no remarkable radiation damage, whose accuracy was estimated using phase retrieval transfer functions to be as good as 64 nm for uninfected and 80 nm for infected erythrocytes, respectively. Future improvements in phase retrieval algorithm, increase in degree of coherence, and higher flux in combination with complementary X-ray fluorescence are necessary to gain both structural and chemical details of mesoscopic architectures, such as cytoskeletons, membraneous structures, and protein complexes, in frozen hydrated human cells, especially under diseased states.
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- Viktoria Frank
- Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), 38043, Grenoble, France.
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- Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.,Department of Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.,Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI iCeMS), Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan
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- Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.,Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI iCeMS), Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan
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- Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), 38043, Grenoble, France
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- Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany. .,Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI iCeMS), Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan.
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Truong NX, Whittaker E, Denecke MA. Phase retrieval of coherent diffractive images with global optimization algorithms. J Appl Crystallogr 2017. [DOI: 10.1107/s1600576717013012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) or lensless microscopy has recently been of great interest as a promising alternative to electron microscopy in achieving atomic spatial resolution. Reconstruction of images in real space from a single experimental diffraction pattern in CDI is based on applying iterative phase-retrieval (IPR) algorithms, such as the hybrid input–output and the error reduction algorithms. For noisy data, these algorithms might suffer from stagnation or trapping in local minima. Generally, the different local minima have many common as well as complementary features and might provide useful information for an improved estimate of the object. Therefore, a linear combination of a number of chosen minima, termed a basis set, gives an educated initial estimate, which might accelerate the search for the global solution. In this study, a genetic algorithm (GA) is combined with an IPR algorithm to tackle the stagnation and trapping in phase-retrieval problems. The combined GA–IPR has been employed to reconstruct an irregularly shaped hole and has proven to be reliable and robust. With the concept of basis set, it is strongly believed that many effective local and global optimization frameworks can be combined in a similar manner to solve the phase problem.
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Hémonnot CYJ, Köster S. Imaging of Biological Materials and Cells by X-ray Scattering and Diffraction. ACS NANO 2017; 11:8542-8559. [PMID: 28787573 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b03447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Cells and biological materials are large objects in comparison to the size of internal components such as organelles and proteins. An understanding of the functions of these nanoscale elements is key to elucidating cellular function. In this review, we describe the advances in X-ray scattering and diffraction techniques for imaging biological systems at the nanoscale. We present a number of principal technological advances in X-ray optics and development of sample environments. We identify radiation damage as one of the most severe challenges in the field, thus rendering the dose an important parameter when putting different X-ray methods in perspective. Furthermore, we describe different successful approaches, including scanning and full-field techniques, along with prominent examples. Finally, we present a few recent studies that combined several techniques in one experiment in order to collect highly complementary data for a multidimensional sample characterization.
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- Clément Y J Hémonnot
- Institute for X-Ray Physics, University of Goettingen , Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, Northwestern University , 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
- Argonne National Laboratory , 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Institute for X-Ray Physics, University of Goettingen , Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Gallagher-Jones M, Dias CSB, Pryor A, Bouchmella K, Zhao L, Lo YH, Cardoso MB, Shapiro D, Rodriguez J, Miao J. Correlative cellular ptychography with functionalized nanoparticles at the Fe L-edge. Sci Rep 2017; 7:4757. [PMID: 28684732 PMCID: PMC5500580 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04784-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2017] [Accepted: 05/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Precise localization of nanoparticles within a cell is crucial to the understanding of cell-particle interactions and has broad applications in nanomedicine. Here, we report a proof-of-principle experiment for imaging individual functionalized nanoparticles within a mammalian cell by correlative microscopy. Using a chemically-fixed HeLa cell labeled with fluorescent core-shell nanoparticles as a model system, we implemented a graphene-oxide layer as a substrate to significantly reduce background scattering. We identified cellular features of interest by fluorescence microscopy, followed by scanning transmission X-ray tomography to localize the particles in 3D, and ptychographic coherent diffractive imaging of the fine features in the region at high resolution. By tuning the X-ray energy to the Fe L-edge, we demonstrated sensitive detection of nanoparticles composed of a 22 nm magnetic Fe3O4 core encased by a 25-nm-thick fluorescent silica (SiO2) shell. These fluorescent core-shell nanoparticles act as landmarks and offer clarity in a cellular context. Our correlative microscopy results confirmed a subset of particles to be fully internalized, and high-contrast ptychographic images showed two oxidation states of individual nanoparticles with a resolution of ~16.5 nm. The ability to precisely localize individual fluorescent nanoparticles within mammalian cells will expand our understanding of the structure/function relationships for functionalized nanoparticles.
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- Marcus Gallagher-Jones
- Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA
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- Brazilian Synchrotron Laboratory (LNLS), Brazilian Center for in Energy and Materials, CEP 13083-970, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA
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- Brazilian Synchrotron Laboratory (LNLS), Brazilian Center for in Energy and Materials, CEP 13083-970, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA.
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Kim Y, Kim C, Kwon OY, Nam D, Kim SS, Park JH, Kim S, Gallagher-Jones M, Kohmura Y, Ishikawa T, Song C, Tae G, Noh DY. Visualization of a Mammalian Mitochondrion by Coherent X-ray Diffractive Imaging. Sci Rep 2017; 7:1850. [PMID: 28500280 PMCID: PMC5431869 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01833-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2016] [Accepted: 04/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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We report a three dimensional (3D) quantitative visualization of a mammalian mitochondrion by coherent x-ray diffractive imaging (CXDI) using synchrotron radiation. The internal structures of a mitochondrion from a mouse embryonic fibroblast cell line (NIH3T3) were visualized by tomographic imaging at approximately 60 nm resolution without the need for sectioning or staining. The overall structure consisted of a high electron density region, composed of the outer and inner membranes and the cristae cluster, which enclosed the lower density mitochondrial matrix. The average mass density of the mitochondrion was about 1.36 g/cm3. Sectioned images of the cristae reveal that they have neither a baffle nor septa shape but were instead irregular. In addition, a high resolution, about 14 nm, 2D projection image was captured of a similar mitochondrion with the aid of strongly scattering Au reference objects. Obtaining 3D images at this improved resolution will allow CXDI to be an effective and nondestructive method for investigating the innate structure of mitochondria and other important life supporting organelles.
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- Yoonhee Kim
- Department of Physics and Photon Science & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Photon Science & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Korea.,European XFEL, Schenefeld, 22869, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Photon Science & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Korea
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- Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 37673, Korea
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- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 37673, Korea
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- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 37673, Korea
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- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 37673, Korea
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Kouto 1-1-1, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan.,Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 37673, Korea.,RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Kouto 1-1-1, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Photon Science & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Photon Science & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Korea.
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Nicolas JD, Bernhardt M, Krenkel M, Richter C, Luther S, Salditt T. Combined scanning X-ray diffraction and holographic imaging of cardiomyocytes. J Appl Crystallogr 2017. [DOI: 10.1107/s1600576717003351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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This article presents scanning small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) experiments on the actomyosin assemblies in freeze-dried neo-natal rat cardiac muscle cells. By scanning the cells through a sub-micrometre focused beam, the local structure and filament orientation can be probed and quantified. To this end, SAXS data were recorded and analyzed directly in reciprocal space to generate maps of different structural parameters (scanning SAXS). The scanning SAXS experiments were complemented by full-field holographic imaging of the projected electron density, following a slight rearrangement of the instrumental setup. It is shown that X-ray holography is ideally suited to complete missing scattering data at low momentum transfer in the structure factor, extending the covered range of spatial frequencies by two orders of magnitude. Regions of interest for scanning can be easily selected on the basis of the electron density maps. Finally, the combination of scanning SAXS and holography allows for a direct verification of possible radiation-induced structural changes in the cell.
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Yusuf M, Zhang F, Chen B, Bhartiya A, Cunnea K, Wagner U, Cacho-Nerin F, Schwenke J, Robinson IK. Procedures for cryogenic X-ray ptychographic imaging of biological samples. IUCRJ 2017; 4:147-151. [PMID: 28250953 PMCID: PMC5330525 DOI: 10.1107/s2052252516020029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2016] [Accepted: 12/16/2016] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Biological sample-preparation procedures have been developed for imaging human chromosomes under cryogenic conditions. A new experimental setup, developed for imaging frozen samples using beamline I13 at Diamond Light Source, is described. This manuscript describes the equipment and experimental procedures as well as the authors' first ptychographic reconstructions using X-rays.
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- M. Yusuf
- London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, England
- Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, England
- Division of Biosciences, Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, England
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- London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, England
- Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, England
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, People’s Republic of China
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- London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, England
- Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, England
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- London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, England
- Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, England
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- Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, England
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- Diamond Light Source, Didcot, Oxfordshire, England
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- London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, England
- Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, England
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- London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, England
- Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, England
- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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Noh DY, Kim C, Kim Y, Song C. Enhancing resolution in coherent x-ray diffraction imaging. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2016; 28:493001. [PMID: 27754981 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/49/493001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Achieving a resolution near 1 nm is a critical issue in coherent x-ray diffraction imaging (CDI) for applications in materials and biology. Albeit with various advantages of CDI based on synchrotrons and newly developed x-ray free electron lasers, its applications would be limited without improving resolution well below 10 nm. Here, we review the issues and efforts in improving CDI resolution including various methods for resolution determination. Enhancing diffraction signal at large diffraction angles, with the aid of interference between neighboring strong scatterers or templates, is reviewed and discussed in terms of increasing signal-to-noise ratio. In addition, we discuss errors in image reconstruction algorithms-caused by the discreteness of the Fourier transformations involved-which degrade the spatial resolution, and suggest ways to correct them. We expect this review to be useful for applications of CDI in imaging weakly scattering soft matters using coherent x-ray sources including x-ray free electron lasers.
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- Do Young Noh
- Department of Physics and Photon Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Korea
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AbstractIn 1912, Max von Laue and collaborators first observed diffraction spots from a millimeter-sized crystal of copper sulfate using an X-ray tube. Crystallography was born of this experiment, and since then, diffraction by both X-rays and electrons has revealed a myriad of inorganic and organic structures, including structures of complex protein assemblies. Advancements in X-ray sources have spurred a revolution in structure determination, facilitated by the development of new methods. This review explores some of the frontier methods that are shaping the future of X-ray diffraction, including coherent diffractive imaging, serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography and small-angle X-ray scattering. Collectively, these methods expand the current limits of structure determination in biological systems across multiple length and time scales.
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Dark-field X-ray ptychography: Towards high-resolution imaging of thick and unstained biological specimens. Sci Rep 2016; 6:35060. [PMID: 27734961 PMCID: PMC5062076 DOI: 10.1038/srep35060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2016] [Accepted: 09/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The phase shift of light or electrons in objects is now necessary for probing weak-phase objects such as unstained biological specimens. Optical microscopy (OM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) have been used to observe weak-phase objects. However, conventional OM has low spatial resolution and TEM is limited to thin specimens. Here, we report on the development of dark-field X-ray ptychography, which combines X-ray ptychography and X-ray in-line holography, to observe weak-phase objects with a phase resolution better than 0.01 rad, a spatial resolution better than 15 nm, and a field of view larger than 5 μm. We apply this method to the observation of both the outline and magnetosomes of the magnetotactic bacteria MO-1. Observation of thick samples with high resolution is expected to find broad applications in not only biology but also materials science.
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Shanblatt ER, Porter CL, Gardner DF, Mancini GF, Karl RM, Tanksalvala MD, Bevis CS, Vartanian VH, Kapteyn HC, Adams DE, Murnane MM. Quantitative Chemically Specific Coherent Diffractive Imaging of Reactions at Buried Interfaces with Few Nanometer Precision. NANO LETTERS 2016; 16:5444-5450. [PMID: 27447192 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We demonstrate quantitative, chemically specific imaging of buried nanostructures, including oxidation and diffusion reactions at buried interfaces, using nondestructive tabletop extreme ultraviolet (EUV) coherent diffractive imaging (CDI). Copper nanostructures inlaid in SiO2 are coated with 100 nm of aluminum, which is opaque to visible light and thick enough that neither visible microscopy nor atomic force microscopy can image the buried interface. Short wavelength high harmonic beams can penetrate the aluminum layer, yielding high-contrast images of the buried structures. Quantitative analysis shows that the reflected EUV light is extremely sensitive to the formation of multiple oxide layers, as well as interdiffusion of materials occurring at the metal-metal and metal-insulator boundaries deep within the nanostructure with few nanometers precision.
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- JILA, University of Colorado , 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, United States
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- JILA, University of Colorado , 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, United States
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- JILA, University of Colorado , 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, United States
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- JILA, University of Colorado , 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, United States
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- JILA, University of Colorado , 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, United States
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- SUNY Poly SEMATECH , 257 Fuller Road, Suite 2200, Albany, New York 12203, United States
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- JILA, University of Colorado , 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, United States
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- JILA, University of Colorado , 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, United States
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- JILA, University of Colorado , 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, United States
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Giewekemeyer K, Hackenberg C, Aquila A, Wilke RN, Groves MR, Jordanova R, Lamzin VS, Borchers G, Saksl K, Zozulya AV, Sprung M, Mancuso AP. Tomography of a Cryo-immobilized Yeast Cell Using Ptychographic Coherent X-Ray Diffractive Imaging. Biophys J 2016; 109:1986-95. [PMID: 26536275 PMCID: PMC4643197 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.08.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2015] [Revised: 08/14/2015] [Accepted: 08/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The structural investigation of noncrystalline, soft biological matter using x-rays is of rapidly increasing interest. Large-scale x-ray sources, such as synchrotrons and x-ray free electron lasers, are becoming ever brighter and make the study of such weakly scattering materials more feasible. Variants of coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) are particularly attractive, as the absence of an objective lens between sample and detector ensures that no x-ray photons scattered by a sample are lost in a limited-efficiency imaging system. Furthermore, the reconstructed complex image contains quantitative density information, most directly accessible through its phase, which is proportional to the projected electron density of the sample. If applied in three dimensions, CDI can thus recover the sample's electron density distribution. As the extension to three dimensions is accompanied by a considerable dose applied to the sample, cryogenic cooling is necessary to optimize the structural preservation of a unique sample in the beam. This, however, imposes considerable technical challenges on the experimental realization. Here, we show a route toward the solution of these challenges using ptychographic CDI (PCDI), a scanning variant of coherent imaging. We present an experimental demonstration of the combination of three-dimensional structure determination through PCDI with a cryogenically cooled biological sample—a budding yeast cell (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)—using hard (7.9 keV) synchrotron x-rays. This proof-of-principle demonstration in particular illustrates the potential of PCDI for highly sensitive, quantitative three-dimensional density determination of cryogenically cooled, hydrated, and unstained biological matter and paves the way to future studies of unique, nonreproducible biological cells at higher resolution.
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory Hamburg c/o Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany
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- European XFEL GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory Hamburg c/o Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory Hamburg c/o Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory Hamburg c/o Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Materials Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovak Republic
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- DESY Photon Science, Hamburg, Germany
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Kobayashi A, Sekiguchi Y, Oroguchi T, Okajima K, Fukuda A, Oide M, Yamamoto M, Nakasako M. Specimen preparation for cryogenic coherent X-ray diffraction imaging of biological cells and cellular organelles by using the X-ray free-electron laser at SACLA. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2016; 23:975-89. [PMID: 27359147 PMCID: PMC5357008 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577516007736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Coherent X-ray diffraction imaging (CXDI) allows internal structures of biological cells and cellular organelles to be analyzed. CXDI experiments have been conducted at 66 K for frozen-hydrated biological specimens at the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact Free-Electron Laser facility (SACLA). In these cryogenic CXDI experiments using X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) pulses, specimen particles dispersed on thin membranes of specimen disks are transferred into the vacuum chamber of a diffraction apparatus. Because focused single XFEL pulses destroy specimen particles at the atomic level, diffraction patterns are collected through raster scanning the specimen disks to provide fresh specimen particles in the irradiation area. The efficiency of diffraction data collection in cryogenic experiments depends on the quality of the prepared specimens. Here, detailed procedures for preparing frozen-hydrated biological specimens, particularly thin membranes and devices developed in our laboratory, are reported. In addition, the quality of the frozen-hydrated specimens are evaluated by analyzing the characteristics of the collected diffraction patterns. Based on the experimental results, the internal structures of the frozen-hydrated specimens and the future development for efficient diffraction data collection are discussed.
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- Amane Kobayashi
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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Kobayashi A, Sekiguchi Y, Takayama Y, Oroguchi T, Shirahama K, Torizuka Y, Manoda M, Nakasako M, Yamamoto M. TAKASAGO-6 apparatus for cryogenic coherent X-ray diffraction imaging of biological non-crystalline particles using X-ray free electron laser at SACLA. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2016; 87:053109. [PMID: 27250394 DOI: 10.1063/1.4948317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Accepted: 04/16/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Coherent X-ray diffraction imaging (CXDI) is a technique for structure analyses of non-crystalline particles with dimensions ranging from micrometer to sub-micrometer. We have developed a diffraction apparatus named TAKASAGO-6 for use in single-shot CXDI experiments of frozen-hydrated non-crystalline biological particles at cryogenic temperature with X-ray free electron laser pulses provided at a repetition rate of 30 Hz from the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free-electron LAser. Specimen particles are flash-cooled after being dispersed on thin membranes supported by specially designed disks. The apparatus is equipped with a high-speed translation stage with a cryogenic pot for raster-scanning of the disks at a speed higher than 25 μm/33 ms. In addition, we use devices assisting the easy transfer of cooled specimens from liquid-nitrogen storages to the cryogenic pot. In the current experimental procedure, more than 20 000 diffraction patterns can be collected within 1 h. Here we report the key components and performance of the diffraction apparatus. Based on the efficiency of the diffraction data collection and the structure analyses of metal particles, biological cells, and cellular organelles, we discuss the future application of this diffraction apparatus for structure analyses of biological specimens.
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- Amane Kobayashi
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- RIGAKU-Aihara Seiki, 2-24 Higasimatsubara, Hakonegasaki, Mizuho-cho, Nishitama-gun, Tokyo 190-1222, Japan
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- RIGAKU-Aihara Seiki, 2-24 Higasimatsubara, Hakonegasaki, Mizuho-cho, Nishitama-gun, Tokyo 190-1222, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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Jiang H. Cryo-coherent diffractive imaging of biological samples with X-ray free-electron lasers. Acta Crystallogr A Found Adv 2016; 72:177-8. [DOI: 10.1107/s2053273316003107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2016] [Accepted: 02/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Recent developments in the imaging of biological samples using the X-ray free-electron laser at the SACLA facility are highlighted.
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Podorov SG, Förster E. Direct inversion of digital 3D Fraunhofer holography maps. APPLIED OPTICS 2016; 55:A150-A153. [PMID: 26835947 DOI: 10.1364/ao.55.00a150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Differential Fourier holography (DFH) gives an exact mathematical solution of the inverse problem of diffraction in the Fraunhofer regime. After the first publication [Opt. Express15, 9954 (2007)], DFH was successfully applied in many experiments to obtain amplitude and phase information about two-dimensional images. In this paper, we demonstrate numerically the possibility to apply DFH also for investigation of unknown three-dimensional objects. The first simulation is made for a double-spiral structure plus a line as a reference object.
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Diaz A, Malkova B, Holler M, Guizar-Sicairos M, Lima E, Panneels V, Pigino G, Bittermann AG, Wettstein L, Tomizaki T, Bunk O, Schertler G, Ishikawa T, Wepf R, Menzel A. Three-dimensional mass density mapping of cellular ultrastructure by ptychographic X-ray nanotomography. J Struct Biol 2015; 192:461-469. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2015.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2015] [Revised: 10/06/2015] [Accepted: 10/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Robinson I. Coherent three-dimensional X-ray cryo-imaging. IUCRJ 2015; 2:477-478. [PMID: 26306188 PMCID: PMC4547814 DOI: 10.1107/s2052252515015109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The combination of cryogenic sample temperatures with three-dimensional coherent diffractive imaging for the case of whole frozen-hydrated cells is discussed in the light of theoretical predictions of the achievable resolution.
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- Ian Robinson
- London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College, Gower St, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
- Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11 0FA, UK
- Materials Science and Engineering, TongJi University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
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