Being able to target specific areas in the lung with cancer drug aerosols would avoid potential drug-related site effects in healthy tissue “Dr. Carsten Rudolph explains to Nanowerk. “We were able to demonstrate theoretically by computer-aided simulation and for the first time experimentally in mice, that targeted aerosol delivery to the lung can be achieved with aerosol droplets comprising superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs), so-called nanomagnetosols, in combination with a target-directed magnetic gradient field.”