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Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Bioimaging Based on Nucleic Acid Amplification Strategies

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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has been widely used on biosensing and bioimaging, especially for nucleic acid analysis. However, some problems such as target identification and signal uniformity limit its development. When introducing nucleic acid amplification strategies into SERS detections, some inspiring works have been reported. Herein, we first made a brief tutorial on SERS technique, then we reviewed recent works on SERS bioimaging based on nucleic acid amplification strategies, and at last, we made an outlook on the development of this topic.

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  1. Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Detection Technology for Tumour Markers, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Linyi University, Linyi, 276005, People’s Republic of China

    Shanwen Hu

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  3. Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Detection Technology for Tumour Markers, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong, China

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Hu, S. (2019). Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Bioimaging Based on Nucleic Acid Amplification Strategies. In: Zhang, S., Bi, S., Song, X. (eds) Nucleic Acid Amplification Strategies for Biosensing, Bioimaging and Biomedicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7044-1_12

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