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From: Functional roles of magnetic nanoparticles for the identification of metastatic lymph nodes in cancer patients

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The application of MNPs-based strategies for MRI imaging of tumor lymphatic metastasis. The successful development of MNPs-based strategies in bioimaging recently made it possible to utilize MNPs as the MRI probes for MLNs tracking in cancer patients. After injection, MNPs could be preferentially phagocytosed by cells in normal lymphoid tissues, resulting in the darkening signal on T2*-weighted images. Inversely, high signal intensity on T2*-weighted images is observed for the metastatic LNs which do not take up the nanoparticles

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Journal of Nanobiotechnology

ISSN: 1477-3155

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