Issue 45, 2013
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Dalton Transactions

A nanospherical polymer as an MRI sensor without paramagnetic or superparamagnetic species†

Satoshi Okada,a   Shin Mizukami,ab   Yutaka Matsumura,c   Yoshichika Yoshiokabcd  and  Kazuya Kikuchi*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
E-mail: kkikuchi@mls.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
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Tel: +81 6 6879 7925

b Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, 3-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

c Advanced Medical Science Research Center, Iwate Medical University, 348-65 Tomegamori, Takizawa, Iwate 020-0173, Japan

d Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

Abstract

We report here a nanospherical polymer consisting of methacrylic acid and N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide, which works as a metal-free magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sensor for pH. The nanospherical polymer gave a lower signal T2-weighted MRI image with decreasing pH. In contrast, it had little effect on the T1-weighted MRI image.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3DT50378J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
07 Feb 2013
Accepted
05 Apr 2013
First published
05 Apr 2013

Dalton Trans., 2013,42, 15864-15867

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A nanospherical polymer as an MRI sensor without paramagnetic or superparamagnetic species

S. Okada, S. Mizukami, Y. Matsumura, Y. Yoshioka and K. Kikuchi, Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 15864 DOI: 10.1039/C3DT50378J

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