ABSTRACT
Quantum physics has shown that although electrons are particles with mass, they simultaneously behave as waves. All particles can be associated with a de Broglie wavelength that is inversely proportional to the mass and speed of the particle. Magnetic resonance imaging is based on quantum physics. Protons, neutrons, electrons, and many other elementary particles behave like small magnetic compass needles that are free to point in different directions, and which can orient themselves along a magnetic field, just as a compass needle points in a north-south direction along the Earth’s magnetic field. The nanoparticles are very small, and it is by utilizing the quantum physical principles of the nanoworld that the particles can become effective weapons in the fight against cancer, in more ways than one.
