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Sci Rep. 2016 Mar 10;6:22354. doi: 10.1038/srep22354.

Intracellular nanoparticles mass quantification by near-edge absorption soft X-ray nanotomography.

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Jose Javier Conesa, Joaquín Otón, Michele Chiappi, Jose María Carazo, Eva Pereiro, Francisco Javier Chichón, José L Carrascosa

Affiliations

  1. Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
  2. ALBA Synchrotron Light Source, MISTRAL Beamline - Experiments Division, 08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
  3. Unidad Asociada CNB-Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanociencia), Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain.

PMID: 26960695 PMCID: PMC4785355 DOI: 10.1038/srep22354

Abstract

We used soft X-ray three-dimensional imaging to quantify the mass of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPION) within whole cells, by exploiting the iron oxide differential absorption contrast. Near-edge absorption soft X-ray nanotomography (NEASXT) combines whole-cell 3D structure determination at 50 nm resolution, with 3D elemental mapping and high throughput. We detected three-dimensional distribution of SPIONs within cells with 0.3 g/cm(3) sensitivity, sufficient for detecting the density corresponding to a single nanoparticle.

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