Nanoparticles illuminate brain tumors for days under MRI
May 28, 2004 | Source: KurzweilAI
Iron oxide nanoparticle ferumoxtran-10, sized as small as a virus, can outline brain tumors under magnetic resonance imaging and other lesions in the brain that may otherwise have gone unnoticed, according to a study published in the journal Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology.
The studies’ findings have the potential to assist image-guided brain surgery and improve diagnosis of lesions caused by multiple sclerosis, stroke and other neurological disorders, in addition to residual tumors.