Superconductors for Medical Applications
S.S. Ali and M. Zulqarnain
Superconductivity plays a vital role in advanced medical diagnostic as well as in treatment of cancer. Smaller sized superconducting cyclotrons are developing as efficient techniques with carbon ions and protons for external beam therapy. This equipment further gives benefits of less cost and due to smaller size it is far easier to handle. Nowadays, superconductivity has been used commercially in numerous applications in medical sciences including low-temperature superconducting (LTS) materials and high field magnets in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), magnetic gene transfer, magnetic drug delivery system and cancer and internal hemorrhages detection. Almost all commercial medical systems based on superconductivity use LTS and the majority uses NbTi wires or superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) made of LTS material.
Keywords
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), MRI based Food Inspection, Magnetic Gene Transfer, Magnetic Drug Delivery System (MDDS), Internal Hemorrhages Detection
Published online 10/5/2022, 19 pages
Citation: S.S. Ali and M. Zulqarnain, Superconductors for Medical Applications, Materials Research Foundations, Vol. 132, pp 211-229, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902110-12
Part of the book on Superconductors
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