Tens of millions of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams are
performed annually around the world. The contrast agents, which improve diagnostic …

Cell death is a fundamental process in cardiac pathologies. Recent studies have revealed
multiple forms of cell death, and several of them have been demonstrated to underlie …

At present, nanoparticles are used for various biomedical applications where they facilitate
laboratory diagnostics and therapeutics. More specifically for drug delivery purposes, the …

In the past decade, the synthesis of superparamagnetic nanoparticles has been intensively
developed not only for its fundamental scientific interest but also for many technological …

Advances in our understanding of the genetic basis of disease susceptibility coupled with
prominent successes for molecular targeted therapies have resulted in an emerging strategy …

The conundrum of modality selection in clinical diagnostic imaging is that modalities with the
highest sensitivity have relatively poor resolution, while those with high resolution have …

Superparamagnetic iron oxide particles (SPIO and USPIO) have a variety of applications in
molecular and cellular imaging. Most of the recent research has concerned cellular imaging …

Simulations were performed to understand the relative contributions of molecular
parameters to longitudinal (r1) and transverse (r2) relaxivity as a function of applied field …

markers such as right atrial pressure, cardiac output, and mean PAP. 8 Importantly, this
procedure has been shown to be safe, with no deaths reported in the National Institutes of …

Nanotechnology has brought a variety of new possibilities into biological discovery and
clinical practice. In particular, nano-scaled carriers have revolutionalized drug delivery …