Water-soluble Polymer Ligand Mediated Synthesis of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
摘要
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most widely used diagnostic techniques. Iron oxide nanoparticles, as a promising kind of contrast agents, have attracted intense research interest due to their low toxicity and superparamagnetism. However, it is still a great challenge to prepare ideal iron oxide based contrast agents with high uniformity, excellent water solubility and biocompatibility. In this paper, a novel water-soluble polymer ligand pentaerythritol tetrakis 3-mercaptopropionate-poly(N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone) (PTMP-PVP) was used as a capping reagent to prepare iron oxide nanoparticles MIONs@PTMP-PVP through one-step co-precipitation of iron precursors in aqueous solution at 100 °C. The obtained nanoparticles MIONs@PTMP-PVP had a small size and narrow size distribution, and they were found to be biocompatible as determined through CCK-8 assay and histology analysis. In vivo MRI study demonstrated that the obtained MIONs@PTMP-PVP can be potentially used as an effective T2-weighted MRI contrast agent.