TY  - JOUR
A1  - Engelmann, Ulrich M.
A1  - Buhl, Eva Miriam
A1  - Draack, Sebastian
A1  - Viereck, Thilo
A1  - Frank, 
A1  - Schmitz-Rode, Thomas
A1  - Slabu, Ioana
T1  - Magnetic relaxation of agglomerated and immobilized iron oxide nanoparticles for hyperthermia and imaging applications
JF  - IEEE Magnetic Letters
N2  - Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are used as therapeutic and diagnostic agents for local delivery of heat and image contrast enhancement in diseased tissue. Besides magnetization, the most important parameter that determines their performance for these applications is their magnetic relaxation, which can be affected when MNPs immobilize and agglomerate inside tissues. In this letter, we investigate different MNP agglomeration states for their magnetic relaxation properties under excitation in alternating fields and relate this to their heating efficiency and imaging properties. With focus on magnetic fluid hyperthermia, two different trends in MNP heating efficiency are measured: an increase by up to 23% for agglomerated MNP in suspension and a decrease by up to 28% for mixed states of agglomerated and immobilized MNP, which indicates that immobilization is the dominant effect. The same comparatively moderate effects are obtained for the signal amplitude in magnetic particle spectroscopy.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LMAG.2018.2879034
SN  - 1949-307X
VL  - 9
IS  - Article number 8519617
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York, NY
ER  -