Open Access

Mass spectrometric imaging of brain tissue by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry – How do polyatomic primary beams C60+, Ar2000+, water-doped Ar2000+ and (H2O)6000+ compare?

Irma Berrueta Razo, Sadia Sheraz (née Rabbani), Alex Henderson, Nicholas P. Lockyer and John C. Vickerman
Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 29 (2015) 1851–1862

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SIMS—A precursor and partner to contemporary mass spectrometry
John C. Vickerman and Nicholas Winograd
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (2014)

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ToF-SIMS as tool for profiling lipids in cancer and other diseases
J.L. Denbigh and N.P. Lockyer
Materials Science and Technology (2014)

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Prospect of increasing secondary ion yields in ToF-SIMS using water cluster primary ion beams

S. Sheraz (née Rabbani), A. Barber, I. Berrueta Razo, J. S. Fletcher, N.P. Lockyer and J. C. Vickerman
Surf. Interface Anal. (2014)

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Comparing C60+ and (H2O)n+ clusters for mouse brain tissue analysis
Irma Berrueta Razo, Sadia Sheraz, Alex Henderson, Nicholas P. Lockyer and John C. Vickerman
Surf. Interface Anal. (2014)

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Spatiotemporal lipid profiling during early embryo development of Xenopus laevis using dynamic Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) Imaging
Hua Tian, John S. Fletcher, Raphael Thuret, Alex Henderson, Nancy Papalopulu, John C. Vickerman and Nicholas P. Lockyer
Journal of Lipid Research (2014)

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Quantitative Surface Analysis of a Binary Drug Mixture—Suppression Effects in the Detection of Sputtered Ions and Post-Ionized Neutrals
Gabriel Karras, Nicholas P. Lockyer
Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry (2014)

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Peptide structural analysis using continuous Ar cluster and C60 ion beams
Satoka Aoyagi, John S. Fletcher, Sadia Sheraz (Rabbani), Tomoko Kawashima, Irma Berrueta Razo, Alex Henderson, Nicholas P. Lockyer, John C. Vickerman
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2013) doi: 10.1007/s00216-013-7139-z

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Enhancing Secondary Ion Yields in Time of Flight-Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Using Water Cluster Primary Beams
Sadia Sheraz née Rabbani, Andrew Barber, John S. Fletcher, Nicholas P. Lockyer, and John C. Vickerman
Analytical Chemistry 85(12) (2013) 5654–5658 doi: 10.1021/ac4013732

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The issue of Analytical Chemistry containing John and John’s review on Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry: Characterizing Complex Samples in Two and Three Dimensions has artwork generated by John Fletcher on the cover.

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Evaluating the challenges associated with time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry for metabolomics using pure and mixed metabolites
John S. Fletcher, Helen L. Kotze, Emily G. Armitage, Nicholas P. Lockyer, John C. Vickerman
Metabolomics (2012) doi: 10.1007/s11306-012-0487-4 (2012)

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Imaging of metabolites using secondary ion mass spectrometry
Emily G. Armitage, Helen L. Kotze, Nicholas P. Lockyer
Metabolomics 9 (2013) 102-109

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Review:

Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry: Characterising complex samples in two and three dimensions.
John Stephen Fletcher and John C. Vickerman
Analytical Chemistry 85 (2013) 610-639. doi: 10.1021/ac303088m

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The inherent problem of transflection-mode infrared spectroscopic microscopy and the ramifications for biomedical single point and imaging applications
Paul Bassan, Joe Lee, Ashwin Sachdeva, Juliana Pissardini, Konrad M. Dorling, John S. Fletcher, Alex Henderson and Peter Gardner
Analyst (2012)

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