Summary
Imagine if one could simply use an optical microscope and see whether a particular virus has infected a biological specimen or not! Or if a single disease causing molecular structure could be detected, 20 years before the disease manifests itself! Conventional microscopy simply does not have such spatial resolution! The challenge is to image endogenous molecules and structures composed of them specifically, in real-time, without tampering and sample destruction. Non-Linear optical techniques such as vibrational sum frequency generation (vSFG) and coherent Raman scattering (CRS), which use the intrinsic properties of molecules for selectively imaging them, provide a solution. They are non-invasive, label-free, chemically selective and non-destructive with capability for video-rate imaging of biomolecules and biochemical structures. However, they need to overcome the frontier of spatial resolution to be able to provide information at
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| Web resources: | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/638258 |
| Start date: | 01-04-2015 |
| End date: | 31-03-2020 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | 1 916 076,00 Euro - 1 916 076,00 Euro |
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Imagine if one could simply use an optical microscope and see whether a particular virus has infected a biological specimen or not! Or if a single disease causing molecular structure could be detected, 20 years before the disease manifests itself! Conventional microscopy simply does not have such spatial resolution! The challenge is to image endogenous molecules and structures composed of them specifically, in real-time, without tampering and sample destruction. Non-Linear optical techniques such as vibrational sum frequency generation (vSFG) and coherent Raman scattering (CRS), which use the intrinsic properties of molecules for selectively imaging them, provide a solution. They are non-invasive, label-free, chemically selective and non-destructive with capability for video-rate imaging of biomolecules and biochemical structures. However, they need to overcome the frontier of spatial resolution to be able to provide information atStatus
CLOSEDCall topic
ERC-StG-2014Update Date
27-04-2024
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