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High-resolution quantitative imaging of mammalian and bacterial cells using stable isotope mass spectrometry

Claude Lechene1 email, Francois Hillion2 email, Greg McMahon1 email, Douglas Benson3 email, Alan M Kleinfeld4 email, J Patrick Kampf4 email, Daniel Distel5 email, Yvette Luyten5 email, Joseph Bonventre6 email, Dirk Hentschel6 email, Kwon Moo Park6 email, Susumu Ito7 email, Martin Schwartz8 email, Gilles Benichou9 email and Georges Slodzian10 email

National Resource for Imaging Mass Spectrometry, Harvard Medical School and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Cameca, 29 Quai des Gresillons, 92622 Gennevilliers Cedex, France

NSee Inc., 106 Greenhaven Lane, Cary, NC 27511, USA

Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, San Diego, CA 92121, USA

Ocean Genome Legacy Foundation, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA

Harvard Medical School and Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA

Harvard Medical School and Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA

10  Universite Paris-Sud, Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse, 91406 Orsay, France

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Journal of Biology 2006, 5:20doi:10.1186/jbiol42

Published: 5 October 2006

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Additional data file 1:

An explanation of how the volume sputtered, the useful yield, and the detectability limit are calculated

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An explanation of how the lateral resolution is calculated

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Data reduction from labeled and control mouse cochlear sections

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The relationship between the brightness of an image and the number of counts

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A comparison of MIMS with autoradiography

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An explanation of the shape of mass line peaks in MIMS

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More details on Figure 2e

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