Journal Article

PreJuSER-18219

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Relaxation behavior study of ultra-small superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles at ultra-low and ultra-high magnetic fields

Wang, W.FZJ* ; Dong, H. ; Pacheco, V.FZJ* ; Willbold, D.FZJ* ; Zhang, Y.FZJ* ; Offenhäusser, A. ; Hartmann, R.FZJ* ; Weirich, T. ; Ma, P.FZJ* ; Krause, H. J. ; Gu, Z.

2011
Soc. Washington, DC

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Abstract: Ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (USPIOs) have attracted attention because of their current and potential usefulness as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). USPIOs are usually used for their significant capacity to produce predominant proton relaxation effects, which result in signal reduction. However, most previous studies that utilized USPIOs have been focused on the relaxation behavior at commonly used magnetic fields of clinical MRI systems (typically 1-3 T). In this paper, magnetic relaxation processes of protons in water surrounding the USPIOs are studied at ultralow (≤10 mT) and ultrahigh magnetic fields (14.1 T). USPIOs used in our experiments were synthesized with a core size of 6 nm, and transferred from organic to water by ligand exchange. The proton spin-lattice relaxation time (T(1)) and spin-spin relaxation time (T(2)) were investigated at ultralow (212 μT for T(2) and 10 mT for T(1)) and at 14.1 T with different iron concentrations. At all of the fields, there is a linear relationship between the inverse of relaxation times and the iron concentration. The spin-spin relaxivity (r(2)) at 14.1 T is much larger than that value of the ultralow field. At ultralow field, however, the spin-lattice relaxivity (r(1)) is larger than the r(1) at ultrahigh field. The results provide a perspective on potential in vivo and in vitro applications of USPIOs in ultralow and ultrahigh field NMR and MRI.

Keyword(s): Contrast Media: chemistry (MeSH) ; Ferric Compounds: chemistry (MeSH) ; Magnetic Fields (MeSH) ; Magnetite Nanoparticles: chemistry (MeSH) ; Solubility (MeSH) ; Water: chemistry (MeSH) ; Contrast Media ; Ferric Compounds ; Magnetite Nanoparticles ; ferric oxide ; Water ; J

Note: We would like to thank F. Dorn for TEM imaging, J. Bachhausen for IR measurements, and H. Lippert for the ICP-OES measurements. This work is supported by the Research Center Juelich, the China Scholarship Council (CSC), and the German Helmholtz Association.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Strukturbiochemie (ICS-6)
2. Bioelektronik (PGI-8)
3. Bioelektronik (ICS-8)

Research Program(s):

1. Funktion und Dysfunktion des Nervensystems (P33)
2. Grundlagen für zukünftige Informationstechnologien (P42)
3. BioSoft: Makromolekulare Systeme und biologische Informationsverarbeitung (P45)

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