Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0064195

Zusammenfassung

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most important diagnostic tools of modern medicine. In order to improve image contrast, contrast agents have been developed since the emergence of MRI. Despite or maybe due to the undisputable success of MRI and contrast agents in diagnostic imaging, a fundamental question or possibility has received virtually no attention at all: Is it possible to switch a contrast agent on and off by an external stimulus? Piezoelectric nanoparticles are proposed as coupling agents between ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It is the hypothe...