Lorentz effect imaging of ionic currents in solution using correct values for ion mobility.

Truong and his colleagues have recently published a paper introducing a new method called Lorentz effect imaging (LEI) to detect ionic currents in a solution. Their main goal was to prove that the Lorentz force acting on ions in the presence of a static magnetic field could be used as a contrast mechanism to measure neural currents with magnetic resonance imaging. However, they failed to use the correct values for the ion mobilities. In this investigation, we have used correct ion mobility values and show that LEI cannot be used as a contrast mechanism to directly image neural currents. (c) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.