Yifan Chen
ABSTRACT
Recent progress in bio-nanotechnologies has promised the prospect of realizing remotely controllable and tractable in-body nanometric devices, which can be managed and monitored by external electromagnetic (EM) stimuli and observers. Furthermore, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can be applied as fundamental building blocks of these nanode-vices due to their attractive structural, biochemical, and EM properties. This paper presents an initial conceptual design of a CNT-based hybrid system for combined medical imaging, sensing, and therapeutic applications. Remote activation and control of the nanoscale devices can be achieved using magnetically-manoeuvred flagellated bacteria or catalytic nanomotors, whereas tracking of them can be achieved through CNT-facilitated dynamic microwave imaging (DMI) techniques. The proposed integrated platform will feature advances in the design of efficient CNT-based nanomachines, protocols for their monitoring and communication, and advanced signal processing techniques to process the information acquired by the system. It is expected that the results would pave the way to radically new forms and applications of nanomachines with unified and ubiquitous medical imaging-sensing-therapeutic functionalities.
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- Towards an integrated medical imaging-sensing-therapeutic platform using electromagnetically-controlled nanomachines: a preliminary conceptual design
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