Patent · US Expired

Method of enhancing paramagnetism in chelates for MRI

US5560903A · kind A · utility

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6References

30Claims

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Assignee

SCHERING CORPORATION · US

Inventors

Heinz Gries · Berlin, DE
Douwe Rosenberg · Berlin, DE
Hanns-Joachim Weinmann · Berlin, DE
Ulrich Speck · Berlin, DE
Wolfgang Mutzel · Berlin, DE
Georg-Alexander Hoyer · Berlin, DE
Heinrich Pfeiffer · Eppingen, DE
Franz-Josef Renneke · Bergkamen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 5, 1995
Grant date	Oct 1, 1996
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 5, 2015

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T436/24
WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A diagnostic medium contains at least one physiologically well tolerated complex salt comprising an anion of a complexing acid and one or more central ion or ions of an element with an atomic number of 21 to 29, 42, 44 or 57 to 83 and, optionally, one or more physiologically biocompatible cation or cations of an inorganic and/or organic base or amino acid, optionally, with additives customary in galenic formulations, dissolved or suspended in an aqueous medium.

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