The advent of responsive contrast agents and nanoparticle drug delivery systems (nano-DDSs) is opening new pathways to understanding pathophysiology using MRI. Nanoparticles have for many years been investigated as possible MRI contrast agents.
Nano-carriers for DDSs can contain multiple functional elements, such as therapeutic drugs, MRI contrast agents, fluorescent or luminescent dyes, and radioisotopes, without serious changes to the particle kinetics/dynamics. The development of such multifunctional nano-DDSs and imaging has accordingly become a subject of widespread research.
Dr. Aoki summarizes his research into nano-DDS-based contrast agents for cancer and neuroscience.
On Demand Session
Dr. Ichio Aoki
Senior Investigator,
Institute for Quantum Medical Science (iQMS), National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Chiba-City, Japan