title: Mechanical mapping with chemical specificity by confocal Brillouin and Raman microscopy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of Exeter, School of Physics, Exeter EX4 4QJ, UK. f.palombo@exeter.ac.uk.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Palombo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Madami
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stone
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fioretto