Magnetic resonance imaging articles within Nature Materials

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• Perspective | 01 February 2021

  Genetically encodable materials for non-invasive biological imaging

  This perspective describes recent developments in genetically encoded protein contrast agents for non-invasive biological imaging, namely ultrasound, magnetic resonance and optoacoustic imaging modalities.

  • Arash Farhadi
  • , Felix Sigmund
  •  & Mikhail G. Shapiro

• News & Views | 23 April 2018

  Gas vesicles as collapsible MRI contrast agents

  Microbial gas vesicles have been developed for use as MRI contrast agents whose contrast can be inactivated by applying ultrasound waves to collapse the vesicles.

  • Jeff W. M. Bulte

• Article | 26 February 2018

  Acoustically modulated magnetic resonance imaging of gas-filled protein nanostructures

  Gas-filled vesicles derived from photosynthetic microbes are shown to elicit magnetic resonance imaging contrast in vitro and in vivo with the potential for acoustically modulated multiplexing and molecular sensing.

  • George J. Lu
  • , Arash Farhadi
  •  & Mikhail G. Shapiro