Review article:
Developments in molecular SIMS depth profiling and 3D imaging of biological systems using polyatomic primary ions
John S. Fletcher, Nicholas P. Lockyer, John C. Vickerman
Mass Spectrometry Reviews (2010) [go there now…]
Barbara and Nick
We welcome back Professors Barbara Garrison and Nick Winograd for another winter sabbatical. Barbara and Nick, both from Penn State University, will be with us for two months.
Matt leaves
Matt leaves us to join the research team at Porton Down. Matt has been part of SARC for 6 years, most recently visiting Berlin and Harvard as part of his post doctoral fellowship. We wish him well in his new role.
Paper – Water Ice
Publication:
A Comparative Study of Secondary Ion Emission from Water Ice under Ion Bombardment by Au+, Au3+, and C60+
Xavier A. Conlan, John S. Fletcher, Nicholas P. Lockyer and John C. Vickerman
J. Phys. Chem. C (2009) [go there now…]
Danish Mass Spec Society
The Danish Society for Mass Spectrometry have invited John F to give a keynote talk at their forthcoming annual meeting. [More…]
New research students
Once more the group expands with the addition of four new PhD students. Helen, Emily, Gareth and Jimmy will be developing our research into cancer mimics, instrumentation and computation.
SIMSXVII
A number of the group attended the 17th International Conference on Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS XVII) in Toronto. John F, Sadia, Ed and Alan all gave oral presentations with Alan and Ed also presenting posters.
Review – Cellular imaging
Review article:
Cellular imaging with secondary ion mass spectrometry
John S. Fletcher
Analyst 134 (2009) 2204-2215 [go there now…]
Paper – multivariate analysis
Publication:
Explanatory multivariate analysis of ToF-SIMS spectra for the discrimination of bacterial isolates
Seetharaman Vaidyanathan, John S. Fletcher, Roger M. Jarvis, Alex Henderson, Nicholas P. Lockyer, Royston Goodacre and John C. Vickerman
Analyst 134 (2009) 2352-2360 [go there now…]
Paper – molecular imaging
Review article:
A new SIMS paradigm for 2D and 3D molecular imaging of bio-systems
John S. Fletcher and John C. Vickerman
Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 396 (2010) 85-104 [go there now…]
Paper – PCA and MAF
Publication:
A comparison of PCA and MAF for ToF-SIMS image interpretation
Alex Henderson, John S. Fletcher, John C. Vickerman
Surf. Interface Anal. 41 (2009) 666-674 [go there now…]
Funding – A new dynamic in mass spectral imaging for biological systems
Funding:
A new dynamic in mass spectral imaging for biological systems
PI: John C. Vickerman, CoI: Nick Lockyer, ResearchCoI: John S. Fletcher
£740k, June 2009 – May 2012. [EPSRC award: EP/G045623/1, more information …]
EPSRC have approved funding for a three year project to investigate 3D SIMS depth information and ionisation effects. This will fund two PDRAs and two PhD students and allows us to further strengthen our collaboration with Professors Nick Winograd (Penn State) and Stephen Reichenbach (University of Nebraska-Lincoln).
Paper – FTIR microspectroscopy
New publication:
Factors influencing the discrimination and classification of prostate cancer cell lines by FTIR microspectroscopy
T.J. Harvey, E. Gazi, A. Henderson, R.D. Snook, N.W. Clarke, M. Brown and P. Gardner
Analyst 134 (2009) 1083 – 1091 [go there now…]
Book – Surface Analysis
New book:
Surface Analysis — The Principal Techniques
Edited by John C. Vickerman and Ian S. Gilmore
Second edition, ISBN: 978-0-470-01764-7 or 978-0-470-01763-0
The second edition of this popular reference text on Surface Analysis has now been released. [go there now…]
Paper – Efficient encoding
New publication:
Efficient encoding and rapid decoding for interactive visualization of large three-dimensional hyperspectral chemical images
Stephen E. Reichenbach, Alex Henderson, Robert Lindquist, Qingping Tao
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 23 (2009) 1229–1233 [go there now…]