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Structure-Correlated Magnetic Resonance Transverse Relaxivity Enhancement in Superparamagnetic Ensembles with Complex
Korobi Konwar1, Niyorjyoti Sharma2, Pranjali Pranjali3
1Department of Physics, Tezpur University (Central University), Tezpur-784028, India.
Abstract:
The aim of the work is to explore structure-relaxivity relationship by observing transverse relaxivity enhancement in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of differently organized superparamagnetic complex ensembles of zinc ferrite isotropic/anisotropic nanosystems. We observe that superparamagnetic systems show a correlation of MRI-transverse relaxivity, r2/r1, with spatial arrangement of nanoparticles, as well as magnetic easy axes and thermal-energy-dependent anisotropy energy landscape. The presence of highly random/partially aligned easy axes with enhanced anisotropy constant leads to modulation in transverse relaxation. As a result, we achieve highest contrast efficiency in compact ensemble of isotropic nanoparticles and hollow core ensemble. Indeed, core-shell ensemble with combined effect of aligned and randomly oriented easy magnetic axes shows a reduction in MRI contrast efficiency. However, we address a hypothesis for transverse contrast efficiency where we depict the correlation among MRI-transverse contrast efficiency with structural complexity of ensembles, differently arranged primary nanoparticles/magnetic easy axes, anisotropy constant, and collective magnetic behavior. In consequence, we simplify the limitation of quantum mechanical outer-sphere diffusion model of magnetic resonance relaxivity by neglecting the contribution of magnetization and introducing an anisotropy constant contribution with complex structure landscape of easy axes.
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