Magnetic colloids hyperthermia

Fortin J-P, Wilhelm C, Servais J, Menager C, Bacri J-C and Gazeau F (2007) Size-sorted anionic iron oxide nanomagnets as colloidal mediators for magnetic hyperthermia, J Am Chem Soc 129 2628-2635. 

It should be noted that the Neel-Brown relaxation model, although widely employed throughout the literature for predicting and interpreting dilferent parameters of interest in colloids for magnetic hyperthermia such as optimum particle size, frequency or field amplitude, has been criticised due to the disagreements found in both qualitative and quantitative analyses. Some of these will be commented on in Sections 2.4.1 and 2.4.2. 

Consequently, much of the development made on bespoke nanoparticles for hyperthermia has been built upon the existing knowledge about iron oxide nanoparticles. Moreover, it must be pointed out that many of the available commercial colloids actually are magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents. For this reason, the next sections will be dealing with them. 

Kallumadil, M. et al (2009) Suitability of commercial colloids for magnetic hyperthermia. J. Magn. Magn. Mater.,... 

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