Publications from the IRM beamline

Use of our microfabricated holder to study living cancer cells

• Tobin, M. J., Puskar, L., Barber, R. L., Harvey, E. C., Heraud, P., Wood, B. R., ... & Munro, K. L. (2010). FTIR spectroscopy of single live cells in aqueous media by synchrotron IR microscopy using microfabricated sample holders. Vibrational Spectroscopy, 53(1), 34-38.

Regarding the implementation of top-up mode 

• Van Garderen, E. D., Bambery, K. R., Clift, M., LeBlanc, G. S., Martin, D. E., Puskar, L., ... & Zhu, D. (2013, March). Instrumentation upgrade for Top-Up operations at the Australian Synchrotron. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 425, No. 4, p. 042015). IOP Publishing.

Applications of our in-house developed “hybrid” macro-ATR accessory

• Vongsvivut, J., Pérez-Guaita, D., Wood, B. R., Heraud, P., Khambatta, K., Hartnell, D., ... & Tobin, M. J. (2019). Synchrotron macro ATR-FTIR microspectroscopy for high-resolution chemical mapping of single cells. Analyst, 144(10), 3226-3238.

Development and application of our piezo-ATR accessory

• Vongsvivut, J., Liu, S., Zhang, R., Easdon, A., Pang, W. K., & Guo, Z. (2025). Novel piezo-controlled ATR-FTIR microspectroscopy for in-situ monitoring of electrochemical reaction in battery models. Infrared Physics & Technology, 105899.

Development of a 4+ angle polarisation visualisation and analysis tool for Quasar software

• Gassner, C., Vongsvivut, J., Ryu, M., Ng, S. H., Toplak, M., Anand, V., ... & Morikawa, J. (2025). Bridging Spectroscopy and Advanced Molecular Orientation Analysis with New 4+ Angle Polarization Toolbox in Quasar. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.18829.

Vibrational spectroscopy reference series. Extensive set of articles.

• P.R. Griffiths. Handbook of vibrational spectroscopy. John M Chalmers; Wiley InterScience (1942)

Reference article with an extensive list of IR peak positions (from biological tissues)

• Movasaghi, Z., Rehman, S., & ur Rehman, D. I. (2008). Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy of biological tissues. Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, 43(2), 134-179.

Good reference article on IR microscopy of living cells

• Holman, H. Y. N., Bechtel, H. A., Hao, Z., & Martin, M. C. (2010). Synchrotron IR spectromicroscopy: chemistry of living cells. Analytical Chemistry, 82(21), 8757-8765

Detailed IR Microscopy book chapter focusing on biological samples, including spectral/imaging processing techniques

• K. Malek, B.R. Wood, K.R. Bambery. FTIR Imaging of Tissues: Techniques and Methods of Analysis; Chapter 15. in book M. Baranska (ed), Optical spectroscopy and computational methods in biology and medicine. Springer Science (2014)

• Miljković, M., Bird, B., & Diem, M. (2012). Line shape distortion effects in infrared spectroscopy. Analyst, 137(17), 3954-3964.

• Bassan, P., Lee, J., Sachdeva, A., Pissardini, J., Dorling, K. M., Fletcher, J. S., ... & Gardner, P. (2013). The inherent problem of transflection-mode infrared spectroscopic microscopy and the ramifications for biomedical single point and imaging applications. Analyst, 138(1), 144-157.

• Hassani, S., Martens, H., Qannari, E. M., & Kohler, A. (2012). Degrees of freedom estimation in principal component analysis and consensus principal component analysis. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 118, 246-259.

• A. Kohler, M. Zimonja, V. Segtnan, H. Martens. Standard Normal Variate, Multiplicative Signal Correction and Extended Multiplicative Signal Correction Preprocessing in Biospectroscopy; Chapter 2.09 in book B. Walczak, R.T. Ferré, S, Brown (eds), Comprehensive Chemometrics - Chemical and biochemical data analysis, Elsevier. Vol 2, pp 139-162 (2007).

 Mie scattering applied to synchrotron-based IRM

• Kohler, A., Sulé-Suso, J., Sockalingum, G. D., Tobin, M., Bahrami, F., Yang, Y., ... & Parkes, G. (2008). Estimating and correcting Mie scattering in synchrotron-based microscopic Fourier transform infrared spectra by extended multiplicative signal correction. Applied Spectroscopy, 62(3), 259-266.

• Kohler, A., Böcker, U., Warringer, J., Blomberg, A., Omholt, S. W., Stark, E., & Martens, H. (2009). Reducing inter-replicate variation in Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy by extended multiplicative signal correction. Applied Spectroscopy, 63(3), 296-305.

• Bassan, P., Kohler, A., Martens, H., Lee, J., Byrne, H. J., Dumas, P., ... & Gardner, P. (2010). Resonant Mie scattering (RMieS) correction of infrared spectra from highly scattering biological samples. Analyst, 135(2), 268-277.

• Afseth, N. K., & Kohler, A. (2012). Extended multiplicative signal correction in vibrational spectroscopy, a tutorial. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 117, 92-99.

• Bassan, P., Sachdeva, A., Kohler, A., Hughes, C., Henderson, A., Boyle, J., ... & Gardner, P. (2012). FTIR microscopy of biological cells and tissue: data analysis using resonant Mie scattering (RMieS) EMSC algorithm. Analyst, 137(6), 1370-1377.

• Bambery, K. R., Wood, B. R., & McNaughton, D. (2012). Resonant Mie scattering (RMieS) correction applied to FTIR images of biological tissue samples. Analyst, 137(1), 126-132.

• Solheim, J. H., Gunko, E., Petersen, D., Großerüschkamp, F., Gerwert, K., & Kohler, A. (2019). An open‐source code for Mie extinction extended multiplicative signal correction for infrared microscopy spectra of cells and tissues. Journal of biophotonics, 12(8), e201800415.