Novel materials in magnetic resonance imaging: high permittivity ceramics, metamaterials, metasurfaces and artificial dielectrics

A Webb, A Shchelokova, A Slobozhanyuk… - … Resonance Materials in …, 2022 - Springer
This article reviews recent developments in designing and testing new types of materials
which can be:(i) placed around the body for in vivo imaging,(ii) be integrated into a …

A pH-responsive T1-T2 dual-modal MRI contrast agent for cancer imaging

H Lu, A Chen, X Zhang, Z Wei, R Cao, Y Zhu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive imaging technology to diagnose health
conditions, showing the weakness of low sensitivity. Herein, we synthesize a contrast agent …

Structural and molecular fusion MRI nanoprobe for differential diagnosis of malignant tumors and follow-up chemodynamic therapy

W Yang, C Deng, X Shi, Y Xu, C Dai, H Wang, K Bian… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Enhanced imaging techniques using contrast agents enable high-resolution structural
imaging to reveal space-occupying lesions but rarely provide detailed molecular …

Recent advances in radio‐frequency coil technologies: flexible, wireless, and integrated coil arrays

D Darnell, TK Truong, AW Song - Journal of Magnetic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Radio‐frequency (RF) coils are to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners what eyes
are to the human body. Because of their critical importance, there have been constant …

Zero-index and hyperbolic metacavities: fundamentals and applications

Z Guo, H Jiang, H Chen - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
As a basic building block, optical resonant cavities (ORCs) are widely used in light
manipulation. They can confine electromagnetic waves and improve the interaction between …

Two-photon CQDs-based dual-mode nanoprobe for fluorescence imaging and magnetic resonance imaging of intracellular wide pH

H Zhong, YX Wu, S Yu, X Wang, K He, D Li… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biological fluorescence imaging technologies have attracted a lot of attention and have
been widely used in biomedical fields. Compared with other technologies, fluorescence …

Helmholtz Coil‐Inspired Volumetric Wireless Resonator for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

X Zhu, K Wu, SW Anderson… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) is one of the most common metrics in assessing the image
quality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Among a host of technological developments …

Improved whole‐brain SNR with an integrated high‐permittivity material in a head array at 7T

K Lakshmanan, G Carluccio, J Walczyk… - Magnetic resonance …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To demonstrate that strategic use of materials with high electric permittivity along
with integrated head‐sized coil arrays can improve SNR in the entire brain. Methods …

Structural Defect‐Enabled Magnetic Neutrality Nanoprobes for Ultra‐High‐Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Isolated Tumor Cells In Vivo

H Du, Q Wang, B Zhang, Z Liang, C Huang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The identification of metastasis “seeds”, isolated tumor cells (ITCs), is of paramount
importance for the prognosis and tailored treatment of metastatic diseases. The conventional …

Metamaterial inspired wireless coil for clinical breast imaging

V Puchnin, G Solomakha, A Nikulin, AW Magill… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose an application of a metamaterial inspired volumetric wireless coil
(WLC) based on coupled split-loop resonators for targeted breast MRI at 1.5 T. Due to strong …