Microcalcifications are an early mammographic sign of breast cancer and a target for stereotactic breast needle biopsy. We developed Raman spectroscopy decision algorithms to detect breast microcalcifications, based on fit coefficients (FC) derived by modeling tissue Raman spectra as a linear combination of the Raman spectra of 9 chemical and morphologic components of breast tissue. However, li...

The last decade has brought much technical and commercial advancement in the field of Raman spectroscopy. More than ten years ago, the analytical community was immersed in the “Raman Renaissance” caused by the development and subsequent commercialization of FTRaman spectroscopy. The coupling of interferometry with 1064 nm Nd:YAG excitation enabled new applications of Raman where previous attemp...

Raman Spectroscopy is an active remote sensing method that can map planetary mineral and chemical abundances and their distributions. Raman spectroscopy can also be used to study the chemical composition of various planetary atmospheres. The remote raman technique utilizes a low power laser to stimulate raman scattering at the substance and a spectrometer receives the returned raman spectrum at...

Raman spectroscopy is a very popular, non-destructive tool for the structural characterisation of carbons. Raman scattering from carbons is always a resonant process, in which those configurations whose band gaps match the excitation energy are preferentially excited. Any mixture of sp , sp and sp carbon atoms always has a gap between 0 and 5.5 eV, and this energy 3 2 1 range matches that of IR...

Background: Raman spectroscopy is a non-invasive optical technique, which has the capability in determining the molecular structure and conformation of biochemical constitutes. Recently we developed a rapid real-time Raman spectrometer system, paving the way for clinical application of Raman spectroscopy. Hypothesis: The morphological structure and the bio-molecular constitutes have been altere...

BACKGROUND Lipid/carbohydrate content and ratio are extremely important when engineering algal cells for liquid biofuel production. However, conventional methods for such determination and quantification are not only destructive and tedious, but also energy consuming and environment unfriendly. In this study, we first demonstrate that Raman spectroscopy is a clean, fast, and accurate method to ...

The study of reaction mechanisms involves systematic investigations of the correlation between structure, reactivity, and time. The challenge is to be able to observe the chemical changes undergone by reactants as they change into products via one or several intermediates such as electronic excited states (singlet and triplet), radicals, radical ions, carbocations, carbanions, carbenes, nitrene...

The present review describes a new enhancement technique for Raman scattering in aqueous solutions. Raman scattering spectroscopy has an inherent ability to distinguish between molecules with great similarity and provides useful information on local physical and chemical environments at their functional groups' level. Since the Raman scattering signals from water molecules are quite weak, Raman...

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Nanocarbon materials, including sp(2) hybridized two-dimensional graphene and one-dimensional carbon nanotubes, and sp(1) hybridized one-dimensional carbyne, are being considered for the next generation of integrated optoelectronic devices. The strong electron-phonon coupling present in these nanocarbon materials makes Raman spectroscopy an ideal tool to study and characterize the material and ...