| Literature DB >> 20939602 |
Sheng Tong1, Sijian Hou, Zhilan Zheng, Jun Zhou, Gang Bao.
Abstract
We describe a new method for coating superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIOs) and demonstrate that, by fine-tuning the core size and PEG coating of SPIOs, the T2 relaxivity per particle can be increased by >200-fold. With 14 nm core and PEG1000 coating, SPIOs can have T2 relaxivity of 385 s-1 mM-1, which is among the highest per-Fe atom relaxivities. In vivo tumor imaging results demonstrated the potential of the SPIOs for clinical applications.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20939602 PMCID: PMC3170660 DOI: 10.1021/nl102623x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nano Lett ISSN: 1530-6984 Impact factor: 11.189