Silicon nanoparticles as hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging agents

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4003-4008

  Aptekar, Jacob W ^a   Cassidy, Maja C ^a   Johnson, Alexander C ^a   Barton, Robert A ^a   Lee, Menyoung ^a   Ogier, Alexander C ^a   Vo, Chinh ^a   Anahtar, Melis N ^b   Ren, Yin ^b   Bhatia, Sangeeta N ^b,c,d   Ramanathan, Chandrasekhar ^c   Cory, David G ^c   Hill, Alison L ^e   Mair, Ross W ^e   Rosen, Matthew S ^a,e   Walsworth, Ronald L ^a,e   Marcus, Charles M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast agent; Functionalized nanoparticle; Hyperpolarized; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Molecular imaging; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Nuclear spin relaxation; Silicon nanoparticle

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST AGENT; FUNCTIONALIZED NANOPARTICLES; HYPERPOLARIZED; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR SPIN RELAXATION; SILICON NANOPARTICLES;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; NANOPARTICLES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SILICON; SPIN DYNAMICS; SPIN POLARIZATION;

RESONANCE;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOMEDICINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CONTRAST MEDIA; CRYSTALLIZATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOMEDICINE; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICON; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM;

EID: 73849139717     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900996p     Document Type: Article

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