Silicon-Nested Gadonanotubes Promise Big Advance for Medical Imaging

A porous, disk-shaped “nest” for nanotubes may help magnetic resonance imaging become better than ever at finding evidence of cancer if the results of research led by investigators at Rice University are any indication of future success. The researchers, whose work was published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, have developed a general method for trapping paramagnetic nanoparticles inside a silicon particle that, when injected into a patient’s bloodstream, would make the nanoparticles up to 50 times more effective at spotting tumors or other signs of disease.
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