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SUBMITTER: Liu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3245870 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Jiangjiang J Cooks R Graham RG Ouyang Zheng Z
Analytical chemistry 20111123 24
Needle biopsy is a routine medical procedure for examining tissue or biofluids for the presence of disease using standard methods of pathology. In this work, spray ionization directly from tissue in the biopsy needle is shown to provide highly specific molecular information through mass spectrometry analysis. The data are available within a minute after the tissue biopsy, a time scale that allows immediate medical decisions to be made. This method has been performed for tissues in a variety of o ...[more]