PMID- 24349933 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20131218 LR - 20211021 IS - 2187-137X (Print) IS - 2186-5116 (Electronic) IS - 2186-5116 (Linking) VI - 2 IP - Spec Iss DP - 2013 TI - Image and Spectral Processing for ToF-SIMS Analysis of Biological Materials. PG - S0014 LID - 10.5702/massspectrometry.S0014 [doi] LID - S0014 AB - Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) instruments can rapidly produce large complex data sets. Within each spectrum, there can be hundreds of peaks. A typical 256x256 pixel image contains 65,536 spectra. If this is extended to a 3D image, the number of spectra in a given data set can reach the millions. The challenge becomes how to process these large data sets while taking into account the changes and differences between all the peaks in the spectra. This is particularly challenging for biological materials that all contain the same types of proteins and lipids, just in varying concentrations and spatial distributions. This data analysis challenge is further complicated by the limitations in the ion yield of higher mass, more chemically specific species, and potentially by the processing power of typical computers. Herein we briefly discuss analysis methodologies including univariate analysis, multivariate analysis (MVA) methods, and some of the limitations of ToF-SIMS analysis of biological materials. FAU - Graham, Daniel J AU - Graham DJ AD - National ESCA and Surface Analysis Center for Biomedical Problems. FAU - Castner, David G AU - Castner DG AD - National ESCA and Surface Analysis Center for Biomedical Problems ; Chemical Engineering University of Washington. LA - eng GR - P41 EB002027/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20130415 PL - Japan TA - Mass Spectrom (Tokyo) JT - Mass spectrometry (Tokyo, Japan) JID - 101603453 PMC - PMC3809723 OTO - NOTNLM OT - ToF-SIMS OT - biological materials OT - image processing EDAT- 2013/12/19 06:00 MHDA- 2013/12/19 06:01 PMCR- 2013/04/15 CRDT- 2013/12/19 06:00 PHST- 2012/09/27 00:00 [received] PHST- 2012/10/23 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/12/19 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/12/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/12/19 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2013/04/15 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.5702/massspectrometry.S0014 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mass Spectrom (Tokyo). 2013;2(Spec Iss):S0014. doi: 10.5702/massspectrometry.S0014. Epub 2013 Apr 15.