| Among the applications that facilitate the study of functional processes in living systems, measurement of the spatial distribution of molecules in biological tissues is currently available. Thus, in the field of human health, this application which targets the molecular distributions of altered tissues can be used, for example, in the diagnosis of diseases such as cancers, Alzheimer's disease, muscular myopathy, but also to recognize the distribution of drugs in animal tissues. The principle of imaging by mass spectrometry is to produce a mapping of the surface of a section of tissue, recording at each point a mass spectrum. All these spectra reconstitute so many "ion density maps", called images, that there are peaks of biological interest in the... |
