Sonja Breuninger

Five key qualitative factors–speed, sensitivity, resolution, modularity and upgradeability, and combinability–contribute to the quality of confocal Raman imaging microscopes. Using application examples, this article introduces modern Raman imaging and correlative imaging techniques, and presents state-of-the-art practice examples from polymer research, pharmaceutics, low-dimensional materials research, and life sciences.

Newly developed software tools provide various functions for the acquisition, evaluation, and processing for high-resolution 3D Raman images.

The sensitivity of a high-resolution Raman imaging system is crucial to the quality of the acquired information.