title: How to quantify iron in an aqueous or biological matrix: a technical note.
abstract: Iron oxide (nano)particles are powerful contrast agents for MRI and tags for magnetic cellular labeling. The need for quantitative methods to evaluate the iron content of contrast media solutions and biological matrixes is thus obvious. Several convenient methods aiming at the quantification of iron from iron oxide nanoparticle-containing samples are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of General, Organic and Biomedical Chemistry, NMR and Molecular Imaging Laboratory, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium.
authors.forename: Sébastien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boutry
authors.forename: Delphine
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Forge
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Burtea
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mahieu
authors.forename: Oltea
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Murariu
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Laurent
authors.forename: Luce
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vander Elst
authors.forename: Robert N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Muller
mesh_terms: D003124:Colorimetry / Q000379:methods*; D003287:Contrast Media / Q000737:chemistry; D005290:Ferric Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement; D007501:Iron / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D019169:Jurkat Cells; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D005290:Ferric Compounds; C000499:ferric oxide; D007501:Iron