Cardiovascular bioimaging of nitric oxide: achievements, challenges, and the future

AK Vidanapathirana, PJ Psaltis… - Medicinal Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nitric oxide (NO) is a ubiquitous, volatile, cellular signaling molecule that operates across a
wide physiological concentration range (pM–µM) in different tissues. It is a highly diffusible …

Silicon nitride photonic integration for visible light applications

MAG Porcel, A Hinojosa, H Jans, A Stassen… - Optics & Laser …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this article, we provide a review of fabrication platforms and state of the art developments
in the area of silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for the visible wavelength …

Hybrid nanocomposite curcumin-capped gold nanoparticle-reduced graphene oxide: Anti-oxidant potency and selective cancer cytotoxicity

LA Al-Ani, WA Yehye, FA Kadir, NM Hashim… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Nanotechnology-based antioxidants and therapeutic agents are believed to be the next
generation tools to face the ever-increasing cancer mortality rates. Graphene stands as a …

Non-invasive nanoscale imaging of protein micro-and nanocrystals for screening crystallization conditions

KP Khakurel, K Hosomi, W Inami… - Applied …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
Crystallography has been the routine technique for studying high-resolution structures of
proteins for over five decades. A major bottleneck in structure determination of …

Cell structure imaging with bright and homogeneous nanometric light source

M Fukuta, A Ono, Y Nawa, W Inami… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Label‐free optical nano‐imaging of dendritic structures and intracellular granules in
biological cells is demonstrated using a bright and homogeneous nanometric light source …

Continuous fabrication of polymeric vesicles and nanotubes with fluidic channels

F Peng, NN Deng, Y Tu, JCM Van Hest, DA Wilson - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluidic channels were employed to induce the self-assembly of poly (ethylene glycol)-b-
polystyrene into polymeric vesicles and nanotubes. The laminar flow in the device enables …

Development of a direct point electron beam exposure system to investigate the biological functions of subcellular domains in a living biological cell

A Tanaka, W Inami, Y Suzuki, Y Kawata - Micron, 2022 - Elsevier
Electron microscopy studies have demonstrated that the diameter of a focused electron
beam is small enough to probe or manipulate subcellular domains of a single biological cell …

Label-free cellular structure imaging with 82 nm lateral resolution using an electron-beam excitation-assisted optical microscope

M Fukuta, Y Masuda, W Inami, Y Kawata - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We present label-free and high spatial-resolution imaging for specific cellular structures
using an electron-beam excitation-assisted optical microscope (EXA microscope). Images of …

Depth structure analysis by surface scanning in near-field microscopes

M Sao, S Takeda, W Inami, Y Kawata - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
High-resolution imaging of the surfaces of samples can be performed using near-field
optical microscopes by scanning a small light spot; however, structures located deep …

High-Resolution Optical Microscopy for Bio-Imaging

W Inami, Y Kawata - Biomedical Engineering, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter discusses the principle of the super-resolution optical microscope by electron
beam excitation and the experimental results of bio-imaging. Therefore, it is necessary to …