Issue 31, 2023

Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry imaging (DESI-MSI) in disease diagnosis: an overview

Abstract

Tissue analysis, which is essential to histology and is considered the benchmark for the diagnosis and prognosis of many illnesses, including cancer, is significant. During surgery, the surgical margin of the tumor is assessed using the labor-intensive, challenging, and commonly subjective technique known as frozen section histopathology. In the biopsy section, large numbers of molecules can now be visualized at once (ion images) following recent developments in [MSI] mass spectrometry imaging under atmospheric conditions. This is vastly superior to and different from the single optical tissue image processing used in traditional histopathology. This review article will focus on the advancement of desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry imaging [DESI-MSI] technique, which is label-free and requires little to no sample preparation. Since the proportion of molecular species in normal and abnormal tissues is different, DESI-MSI can capture ion images of the distributions of lipids and metabolites on biopsy sections, which can provide rich diagnostic information. This is not a systematic review but a summary of well-known, cutting-edge and recent DESI-MSI applications in cancer research between 2018 and 2023.

Graphical abstract: Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry imaging (DESI-MSI) in disease diagnosis: an overview

Article information

Article type
Minireview
Submitted
27 mai 2023
Accepted
13 jul 2023
First published
14 jul 2023

Anal. Methods, 2023,15, 3768-3784

Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry imaging (DESI-MSI) in disease diagnosis: an overview

B. S. Kumar, Anal. Methods, 2023, 15, 3768 DOI: 10.1039/D3AY00867C

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