Observation of living biological cells with a laser-plasma soft X-ray microscope

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

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Laser-plasma soft X-ray sources have advantage of brightness and short pulse duration and a soft X-ray microscope using them can observe live biological cells with a high spatial resolution. We have succeeded to observe fine structures of cellular organelles of live biological cells and also structural deformations of apoptotic nuclei.