We report on the development of multi-needle fiberoptic Raman spectroscopy (MNF-RS) technique for simultaneous multi-site deep tissue Raman measurements of brain. High quality tissue Raman spectra within the range of fingerprint (FP, 800 – 1800 cm-1) and high-wavenumber (HW, 2800 – 3300 cm-1) are collected within sub-second integration time using the MNF-RS technique from different tissue types (e.g., muscle, fat, gray matter and white matter from porcine brain). We advance the MNF-RS probes into deep porcine brain for validating its simultaneous Raman spectra acquisition capability from different brain regions (e.g., cortex, thalamus, midbrain and cerebellum). The distinct biochemical differences are identified among different brain locations, indicating the promising potential of MNF-RS technique for label-free neuroscience study at the molecular level.
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