Conti, C;
Realini, M;
Colombo, C;
Botteon, A;
Matousek, P;
(2016)
Contrasting confocal with defocusing microscale spatially offset Raman spectroscopy.
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
, 47
(5)
pp. 565-570.
10.1002/jrs.4851.
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Abstract
The study compares and contrasts conventional confocal Raman microscopy/spectroscopy (CRM) with a recently developed micrometer scale defocusing spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (micro-SORS), a method providing a new analytical capability for investigating non-destructively the chemical composition of subsurface, micrometer-scale-thick diffusely scattering layers at depths beyond the reach of CRM. Because of close similarities between the two techniques and comparable embodiment of the instrumentations, but radically different interpretations of data, it is crucially important to recognise which type of method is pertinent to a specific measurement. The distinction comes principally from the nature of sample, whether turbid (micro-SORS measurement) or transparent (CRM measurement) on the spatial scale of the axial (z-)scan of the measurement. Which type of sample one deals with may not always be easily recognisable with micro-scale thick layers, and the study therefore also presents a simple method for suggesting whether CRM or micro-SORS methodology applies. This test relies on an axial (z-)scan performed through the sample in both the positive and negative directions from the normal, imaged sample surface position using conventional CRM instrument. The absence or presence of symmetry or asymmetry of the intensity profiles of measured Raman signals around the imaged sample surface position as a function of sample axial displacement then suggests which interpretation could apply. The study paves a way for the development of micro-SORS as a widely applicable analytical tool deployable on conventional Raman microscopes.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Contrasting confocal with defocusing microscale spatially offset Raman spectroscopy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/jrs.4851 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jrs.4851 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [Conti, C., Realini, M., Colombo, C., Botteon, A., and Matousek, P. (2016) Contrasting confocal with defocusing microscale spatially offset Raman spectroscopy. J. Raman Spectrosc., 47: 565–570. doi: 10.1002/jrs.4851], which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jrs.4851/abstract. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
| Keywords: | spatially offset Raman spectroscopy; subsurface; non-destructive; diffusely scattering; cultural heritage |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1497052 |
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