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Zinc Doped Copper Ferrite Particles as Temperature Sensors for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Karl Stupic, Janusz H. Hankiewicz, Zbigniew Celinski, Robert E. Camley, Marek Przybylski, Jan Zukrowski, Nick Anderson, Noweir Alghamdi, Nicholas Hammelev

Abstract

We investigate the use of Cu0.35Zn0.65Fe2O4 particles as temperature-dependent sensors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This material has a Curie temperature near 290 K, but in the large magnetic fields found in MRI scanners there is a significant temperature-dependent magnetic moment near body temperature, 310 K. When the ferrite particles are doped into an agar gel, the temperature-dependent magnetic moment leads to a temperature-dependent broadening of the NMR linewidth for water protons and to a temperature-dependent image intensity for MRI, allowing one to make temperature maps within objects. The temperature resolution is about 1.3 K.
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AIP Advances

Keywords

MRI, Temperature

Citation

Stupic, K. , Hankiewicz, J. , Celinski, Z. , Camley, R. , Przybylski, M. , Zukrowski, J. , Anderson, N. , Alghamdi, N. and Hammelev, N. (2017), Zinc Doped Copper Ferrite Particles as Temperature Sensors for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, AIP Advances, [online], https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4973439 (Accessed December 13, 2024)

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Created December 27, 2017, Updated September 21, 2022