Correlative microscopy with a laser-plasma soft X-ray microscope and a fluorescent microscope for biological imaging of live hydrated cells

Kado, Masataka; Kishimoto, Maki; Tamotsu, Satoshi*; Yasuda, Keiko*; Aoyama, Masato*; Tone, Shigenobu*; Shinohara, Kunio*

A laser-plasma soft X-ray microscope which is combination of a highly intense laser-plasma soft X-ray source and contact microscopy has been developed. We have proposed a correlative microscopy with the laser-plasma soft X-ray microscope and a fluorescent microscope that is to observe the same biological cells with the both microscopes at the same time. Live hydrated biological cells and various cellular organelles of them have been observed with the correlative microscopy. Using the information of the cellular organelles obtained with the fluorescence microscope, inner structures obtained with the soft X-ray microscope are exactly identified. Since the spatial resolution of the soft X-ray microscope is much higher than that of the fluorescent microscope, fine structures of the cellular organelles of the live biological cells have been visualized with the correlative microscopy.