Paramagnetic contrast agents for MR imaging
US4859451A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 24, 1986 |
| Grant date | Aug 22, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 24, 2006 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T436/24
- WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
In the NMR imaging of a subject comprising administering to such subject a composition containing an image-modifying effective amount of an image enhancer, permitting the enhancer to move through the subject, and after a time interval taking an NMR image of the subject, the improvement which comprises employing as said enhancer a complex of a paramagnetic polyvalent metal and a partial amide and/or ester of diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid. The complexes are new.
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