Nano-Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Nano-MRI) Gives Personalized Medicine a New Perspective

Lorenzo Rosa; Jonathan Blackledge; Albert Boretti

doi:10.3390/biomedicines5010007

Nano-Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Nano-MRI) Gives Personalized Medicine a New Perspective

Biomedicines. 2017 Feb 1;5(1):7. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines5010007.

Authors

Lorenzo Rosa^{1

2}, Jonathan Blackledge^{3

4

5

6}, Albert Boretti^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Microphotonics (H74), Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 3122, Australia. lrosa@ieee.org.
² Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma, Parma 43121, Italy. lrosa@ieee.org.
³ Military Technological College, Muscat 111, Oman. Jonathan.Blackledge@mtc.edu.om.
⁴ School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa. Jonathan.Blackledge@mtc.edu.om.
⁵ School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street, Dublin 8, Ireland. Jonathan.Blackledge@mtc.edu.om.
⁶ Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Natural Science, University of Western Cape, Bellvile 7535, South Africa. Jonathan.Blackledge@mtc.edu.om.
⁷ Military Technological College, Muscat 111, Oman. a.a.boretti@gmail.com.
⁸ Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University (WVU), Morgantown, WV 26506, USA. a.a.boretti@gmail.com.

Abstract

This paper reviews some of the major and most recent advances in nanoscale-magnetic resonance imaging (nano-MRI) for personalized medicine (PM). Nano-MRI may drastically expand the capabilities of the traditional magnetic resonance images (MRI), down to the nanometer scale and possibly, in the near future, at the atomic scale. Nano-MRI is potentially able to observe structures which cannot be seen using today's molecular imaging, with sensitivities of many billions of times better than MRI as currently used in hospitals, for example. The paper briefly reports on the foremost research themes in nano-MRI.

Keywords: nano-MRI; personalized medicine; recent developments.