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Exploring The Potential Use Of Porous Silica Nanoparticles In Cest-Mri, Lydia Makotamo
Exploring The Potential Use Of Porous Silica Nanoparticles In Cest-Mri, Lydia Makotamo
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used modality in diagnostics, treatment, and monitoring various conditions due to its ability to generate high-resolution images using non-ionizing radiation. The advent of contrast agents, which generally work by increasing the spin relaxation rate constants of water protons, has led to image enhancement. Despite the usefulness of this class of agents in diagnostic medicine, their inability to provide in-depth functional and anatomical information, coupled with their high detection limits, has led to new agents being explored.
Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) presents an alternative route to generate signals via repetitive saturations transfers between …