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Fabrication of Magnetic Nanostructures on Silicon Nitride Membranes for Magnetic Vortex Studies Using Transmission Microscopy Techniques
Published on: July 2, 2018
Stealth rare earth oxide nanodiscs for magnetic resonance imaging
Mark J Bailey1, Rob van der Weegen, Piper J Klemm
1The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Abstract:
Configuring RE(2) O(3) nanocrystals with pseudo-2D morphologies confers substantive gains in relaxivities over equivalent spherical counterparts. The most promising arises from Gd(2) O(3) whose ionic transverse and longitudinal relaxivities were as high as r(1) = 12.7 mM(-1) s(-1) and r(2) = 17.2 mM(-1) s(-1) (dispersed in H(2) O, T = 37 °C & B(0) = 1.41 T), pointing to new opportunities to achieve high contrast MRI while concomitantly affording longer half-life potential in vivo.
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