Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Human-sized magnetic particle imaging for brain applications

  • M. Graeser,
  • F. Thieben,
  • P. Szwargulski,
  • F. Werner,
  • N. Gdaniec,
  • M. Boberg,
  • F. Griese,
  • M. Möddel,
  • P. Ludewig,
  • D. van de Ven,
  • O. M. Weber,
  • O. Woywode,
  • B. Gleich,
  • T. Knopp

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09704-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) has been applied to various pre-clinical settings, including detection of ischemic stroke in mice. Translation of MPI to a clinical setting has been obstacled by the lack of a device with sufficient bore size and, at the same time, reasonable technical requirements. Here the authors present a human-sized MPI device with low technical requirements designed for detection of brain ischemia.