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An important approach to improve the resolution in non-invasive medical diagnosis techniques is to utilize nanoscale materials which improve tissue contrast. We have discovered that laboratory grown ferrimagnetic cluster-like colloidal entities, composed of nanocrystals of the oxidized form of naturally occurring magnetite (loadstone), exhibit a remarkable four-times better generation of contrast enhancement compared to commercially available products utilized in MR imaging methods.

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This work unveils the directed assembly of inorganic nanocrystals as an avenue to impart a collective nature in application-specific physical properties, which in the present case, offer the possibility for magnetically-driven image-guided diagnosis and therapy.

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This page is a summary of: Colloidal assemblies of oriented maghemite nanocrystals and their NMR relaxometric properties, Dalton Transactions, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry,
DOI: 10.1039/c4dt00024b.
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