Magnetic Particle Imaging in Vascular Imaging, Immunotherapy, Cell Tracking, and Noninvasive Diagnosis

Figure 9

Lung ventilation/perfusion studies using magnetic particle imaging. (a) An Engineered mechanical ventilation device with a vibrating mesh nanoparticle aerosolizer for ventilation study of the lungs using MPI. (b) SPIOs aggregated in macroaggregated albumin (MAA) for lung perfusion studies. (c) MPI lung ventilation/perfusion images co-registered with X-ray images as an anatomical reference [24, 31] (reproduced with permission from IOP Publishing and under the Creative Common license).

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