Small is Smarter: Nano MRI Contrast Agents - Advantages and Recent Achievements.

@article{Gao2016SmallIS,
  title={Small is Smarter: Nano MRI Contrast Agents - Advantages and Recent Achievements.},
  author={Zhenyu Gao and Tiancong Ma and Enyu Zhao and Dominic Docter and Wensheng Yang and Roland H. Stauber and Mingyuan Gao},
  journal={Small},
  year={2016},
  volume={12 5},
  pages={
          556-76
        }
}
Many challenges for advanced sensitive and noninvasive clinical diagnostic imaging remain unmatched. In particular, the great potential of magnetic nano-probes is intensively discussed to further improve the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), especially for cancer diagnosis. Based on recent achievements, here the concepts of magnetic nanoparticle-based MRI contrast agents and tumor-specific imaging probes are critically summarized. Advances in their synthesis, biocompatible… 
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