Université de Fribourg

A quantitative study of particle size effects in the magnetorelaxometry of magnetic nanoparticles using atomic magnetometry

Dolgovskiy, Vladimir ; Lebedev, Victor ; Colombo, Simone ; Weis, Antoine ; Michen, Benjamin ; Ackermann-Hirschi, Liliane ; Petri-Fink, Alke

In: Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2015, vol. 379, p. 137–150

The discrimination of immobilised superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) against SPIONs in fluid environments via their magnetic relaxation behaviour is a powerful tool for bio-medical imaging. Here we demonstrate that a gradiometer of laser-pumped atomic magnetometers can be used to record accurate time series of the relaxing magnetic field produced by pre-polarised SPIONs. We have...