Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Techniques: Technical Principles and Applications in Nanomedicine

Overview

Journal Cancers (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Oncology

Date 2022 Apr 12

PMID 35406399

Authors

Federico Bruno

Vincenza Granata

Flavia Cobianchi Bellisari

Ferruccio Sgalambro

Emanuele Tommasino

Pierpaolo Palumbo

Francesco Arrigoni

Diletta Cozzi

Francesca Grassi

Maria Chiara Brunese

Silvia Pradella

Maria Luisa Mangoni di S Stefano

Carmen Cutolo

Ernesto Di Cesare

Alessandra Splendiani

Andrea Giovagnoni

Vittorio Miele

Roberto Grassi

Carlo Masciocchi

Antonio Barile

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Abstract

In the last decades, nanotechnology has been used in a wide range of biomedical applications, both diagnostic and therapeutic. In this scenario, imaging techniques represent a fundamental tool to obtain information about the properties of nanoconstructs and their interactions with the biological environment in preclinical and clinical settings. This paper reviews the state of the art of the application of magnetic resonance imaging in the field of nanomedicine, as well as the use of nanoparticles as diagnostic and therapeutic tools, especially in cancer, including the characteristics that hinder the use of nanoparticles in clinical practice.

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