Sterile composition comprising a chelate complex for magnetic resonance imaging

US5648063A · kind A · utility

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: Aug 4, 1993
• Grant date: Jul 15, 1997
• Expiry date: Aug 4, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/24
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

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.