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Simultaneous Coercivity and Size Determination of Magnetic Nanoparticles
Magnetic nanoparticles are increasingly employed in biomedical applications such as disease detection and tumor treatment. To ensure a safe and efficient operation of these applications, a noninvasive and accurate characterization of the particles is required. In this work, a magnetic characterizati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7411963/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32664673 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20143882 |
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description | Magnetic nanoparticles are increasingly employed in biomedical applications such as disease detection and tumor treatment. To ensure a safe and efficient operation of these applications, a noninvasive and accurate characterization of the particles is required. In this work, a magnetic characterization technique is presented in which the particles are excited by specific pulsed time-varying magnetic fields. This way, we can selectively excite nanoparticles of a given size so that the resulting measurement gives direct information on the size distribution without the need for any a priori assumptions or complex postprocessing procedures to decompose the measurement signal. This contrasts state-of-the-art magnetic characterization techniques. The possibility to selectively excite certain particle types opens up perspectives in “multicolor” particle imaging, where different particle types need to be imaged independently within one sample. Moreover, the presented methodology allows one to simultaneously determine the size-dependent coercivity of the particles. This is not only a valuable structure–property relation from a fundamental point of view, it is also practically relevant to optimize applications like magnetic particle hyperthermia. We numerically demonstrate that the novel characterization technique can accurately reconstruct several particle size distributions and is able to retrieve the coercivity–size relation of the particles. The developed technique advances current magnetic nanoparticle characterization possibilities and opens up exciting pathways for biomedical applications and particle imaging procedures. |
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spelling | pubmed-74119632020-08-25 Simultaneous Coercivity and Size Determination of Magnetic Nanoparticles Coene, Annelies Leliaert, Jonathan Sensors (Basel) Article Magnetic nanoparticles are increasingly employed in biomedical applications such as disease detection and tumor treatment. To ensure a safe and efficient operation of these applications, a noninvasive and accurate characterization of the particles is required. In this work, a magnetic characterization technique is presented in which the particles are excited by specific pulsed time-varying magnetic fields. This way, we can selectively excite nanoparticles of a given size so that the resulting measurement gives direct information on the size distribution without the need for any a priori assumptions or complex postprocessing procedures to decompose the measurement signal. This contrasts state-of-the-art magnetic characterization techniques. The possibility to selectively excite certain particle types opens up perspectives in “multicolor” particle imaging, where different particle types need to be imaged independently within one sample. Moreover, the presented methodology allows one to simultaneously determine the size-dependent coercivity of the particles. This is not only a valuable structure–property relation from a fundamental point of view, it is also practically relevant to optimize applications like magnetic particle hyperthermia. We numerically demonstrate that the novel characterization technique can accurately reconstruct several particle size distributions and is able to retrieve the coercivity–size relation of the particles. The developed technique advances current magnetic nanoparticle characterization possibilities and opens up exciting pathways for biomedical applications and particle imaging procedures. MDPI 2020-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7411963/ /pubmed/32664673 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20143882 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Coene, Annelies Leliaert, Jonathan Simultaneous Coercivity and Size Determination of Magnetic Nanoparticles |
title | Simultaneous Coercivity and Size Determination of Magnetic Nanoparticles |
title_full | Simultaneous Coercivity and Size Determination of Magnetic Nanoparticles |
title_fullStr | Simultaneous Coercivity and Size Determination of Magnetic Nanoparticles |
title_full_unstemmed | Simultaneous Coercivity and Size Determination of Magnetic Nanoparticles |
title_short | Simultaneous Coercivity and Size Determination of Magnetic Nanoparticles |
title_sort | simultaneous coercivity and size determination of magnetic nanoparticles |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7411963/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32664673 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20143882 |
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