Professor's MRI technique creates brain images with 'unprecedented clarity'
A Northeastern University-Boston professor and his students have used magnetic nanoparticles to create “beautiful images with unprecedented clarity” of the human brain, reports News@Northeastern.
The technique, developed by Srinivas Sridhar—Northeastern professor of physics, and three PhD students—uses iron oxide nanoparticles for MRI in place of the traditional gadolinium liquid contrast agent to create maps of blood vessel and blood volume in the brain.
Theranano, a company founded by Sridhar, received a $225,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to begin testing the method in clinical trials at Massachusetts General Hospital.
“In my career, I’ve written more than 200 papers and gotten more than $20 million in grants. But I’ve wanted to make sure that the work benefits people. It’s very exciting that, only three years after my students and I began this research, it will be tested in a clinical setting,” said Sridhar to the university news outlet.
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