Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Mapping the microscale origins of magnetic resonance image contrast with subcellular diamond magnetometry

  • Hunter C. Davis,
  • Pradeep Ramesh,
  • Aadyot Bhatnagar,
  • Audrey Lee-Gosselin,
  • John F. Barry,
  • David R. Glenn,
  • Ronald L. Walsworth,
  • Mikhail G. Shapiro

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02471-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Magnetic resonance imaging derives its contrast from local magnetic fields, however the connection between these fields and macroscale contrast has not been established through direct experiments. Here, Davis et al. use diamond magnetometry to map local magnetic fields within mammalian cells with sub-micron resolution and predict macroscale contrast.