Communications Physics (Jan 2022)

Imaging and sensing of pH and chemical state with nuclear-spin-correlated cascade gamma rays via radioactive tracer

  • Kenji Shimazoe,
  • Mizuki Uenomachi,
  • Hiroyuki Takahashi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00801-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Although computed tomography provides useful information on the accumulation of radioactive tracers in vivo, no information about the local chemical environment is obtained. Here, quantum sensing is combined with tomography to simultaneously image and measure the pH of a phantom tissue.