F. Palombo, M. Madami, N. Stone and D. Fioretto
Analyst, 2014,139, 729-733
DOI:
10.1039/C3AN02168H,
Communication
We describe the first application of confocal Brillouin and Raman microscopy to ex vivo human epithelial tissue – Barrett's oesophagus. This non-invasive label-free approach provides high-resolution mechanical mapping with chemical specificity, opening the route to a new integrated method for multiple biomedical and bioengineering applications, and potentially in vivo real-time diagnostics.