Multimodal Hierarchical Imaging of Serial Sections for Finding Specific Cellular Targets within Large VolumesIrene U. Wacker 1,2, Lisa Veith 3, Waldemar Spomer 2,4, Andreas Hofmann 2,4, Marlene Thaler 5, Stefan Hillmer 6, Ulrich Gengenbach 2,4, Rasmus R. Schröder 1,2,3
1Cryo Electron Microscopy, Centre for Advanced Materials, Universität Heidelberg, 2Heidelberg Karlsruhe Research Partnership (HEiKA), 3Cryo Electron Microscopy, BioQuant, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, 4Institute for Automation and Applied Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 5Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, 6Electron Microscopy Core Facility, Universität Heidelberg
This protocol targets specific cells in tissue for imaging at nanoscale resolution using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Large numbers of serial sections from resin-embedded biological material are first imaged in a light microscope to identify the target and then in a hierarchical manner in the SEM.
