Magnetic Nanoparticles: Its Effect on Cellular Behaviour and Potential Applications

Abstract

With the advancement of nanotechnology and the development of molecular medicine, molecular and imaging becomes one of the most popular researches in the latest medicine. Molecular imaging can be defined as the imaging of targeted molecules non-invasively and repetitively in living organisms and cellular imaging can be defined similarly as the imaging of cells or cellular process non-invasively and repetitively in living organisms. At present, the common imaging tools for clinical study include ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, MRI is superior to CT for its better in soft tissue contrast, more sensitive in pathology detection, and lack of ionization irradiation.