Magnetic Drug Targeting
Ferromagnetic particles are magnetized in an inhomogeneous magnetic field – due to a field gradient the particles are exposed to a driving force in direction of the increasing field.
- Transportation is possible
- Connecting chemotherapeutical remedy to magnetic nanobeads
- Transportation of the nanobeads to the tumor by means of external magnetic fields
- Larger doses of chemotherapeutical remedy possible
- Less side effects
- More efficent possibilities of treatment with well-directed medication