Temperature-Regulated Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging System for Bioaffinity Sensing

We describe a temperature-regulated surface plasmon resonance (SPR) imaging biosensor in this article. The sample temperature can be regulated for specific requirements of the bioaffinity sensing, and stabilized to suppress the measurement noise caused by temperature fluctuations. The water thermo optic coefficient is measured to test the temperature regulation performance. The protein interaction is monitored to demonstrate the feasibility of this system for real-time biomolecular interaction analysis. This temperature-regulated SPR imaging biosensor can be readily implemented by adding the common water path and peristaltic pump to the conventional SPR imaging system, which may provide an economical and convenient scheme to improve the analysis accuracy and quality of bioaffinity sensing using SPR sensing platform.