Premium
Towards in vivo intradermal surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) measurements: silver coated microneedle based SERS probe
Author(s) -
Yuen Clement,
Liu Quan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of biophotonics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.877
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1864-0648
pISSN - 1864-063X
DOI - 10.1002/jbio.201300006
Subject(s) - imaging phantom , materials science , raman scattering , biomedical engineering , analyte , in vivo , layer (electronics) , optics , analytical chemistry (journal) , nanotechnology , raman spectroscopy , chemistry , chromatography , medicine , physics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
We propose a microneedle coated with silver (Ag) to detect analytes at low concentrations positioned at a depth of more than 700 μm below the surface of a skin phantom with absorbers and scatterers for mimicking the intradermal surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) measurements. The Ag layer in the Ag‐coated microneedle‐based probe is found to be the key to the effective detection of analytes buried inside the aforesaid phantom. Glucose concentrations ranging from 5 to 150 mM inside phantoms can be estimated with a root mean square error (RMSE) of 3.3 mM. This work shows the potential of using microneedles for simple in vivo intradermal SERS measurements of analytes with clinical relevance. (© 2014 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)