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Contrast Agents and Contrast Induced Nephropathy
... intravenous contrast agents in ...ous contrast agents in adults to reduce the risk of contrast-induced ...of contrast-induced nephropa- thy in patients at ...
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Advances in Ultrasound Mediated Gene Therapy Using Microbubble Contrast Agents
... ultrasound contrast agents have the potential to dramatically improve gene therapy treatments by enhancing the delivery of therapeutic DNA to malignant ...microbubble contrast agents, namely ...
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Element-specific spectral imaging of multiple contrast agents: A phantom study
... nano-contrast agents to in vivo clinical applications whether as purely diagnostic agents or combined with therapy (theranostic agents) is a difficult task and fraught with regulatory ...
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Risk factors for adverse reactions from contrast agents for computed tomography
... atopic dermatitis, and urticaria, is also considered a signifi- cant risk factor [16]. However, no prior study has exam- ined to quantitatively adverse effects of contrast agents. A prediction rule may ...
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Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles as Contrast Agents in MRI: Recent Advances and Clinical Challenges
... Imaging contrast agents allow a high sensitivity for the early detection of different pathologies and the tracking of magnetically tagged cells in vivo through molecular and cellular imaging ...MRI ...
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Surface impact on nanoparticle-based magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents
... Viruses have also been utilized as scaffolds to construct MRI contrast agents [111]. One example is Cowpea chlorotic mottle virus (CCMV) coat proteins, which can self-assemble into either an icosahedral ...
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Gadolinium-Mesoporous Silica as a Potential Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents
... In recent years, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has emerged as one of the best techniques in medical diagnosis. MRI has been widely used and promotes the development of pharmaceutical compounds called contrast ...
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Macrocyclic MR contrast agents: evaluation of multiple-organ gadolinium retention in healthy rats
... Animals in groups B, C, D, and E were administered the following contrast agents, respectively: ProHance®, batch n. V17628, expiry: 06/2020; Dotarem®, batch n. 17GD009B01, expiry: 01/2020; Clariscan™, batch ...
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Dendrimer entrapped gold nanoparticles as potential CT contrast agents for blood pool imaging
... MI agents are used for tumor ...allowing contrast agents to diffuse freely from the vasculature into the interstitial ...nanoparticle contrast agent is also determined by its size ...renal ...
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A Serial Dilution Study of Gadolinium Based MR Imaging Contrast Agents
... as contrast washes in, through, and then out of the tissues of ...infused contrast agents ...first-pass contrast bolus, therefore, results in sig- nal-intensity loss and returns to near ...
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Nanoparticles in magnetic resonance imaging: from simple to dual contrast agents
... Gd-based contrast agents is the low sen- sitivity of the resultant MRI, so that to reach 50% contrast enhancement it is necessary to have a local concentration of contrast agent of the order ...
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Alk5 inhibition increases delivery of macromolecular and protein-bound contrast agents to tumors
... nonspecific contrast agents ...theranostic agents, among many others, significantly improve tumor detection, characterization, and therapy stratification and improve selective delivery of anticancer ...
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Carbon coated iron oxide nanoparticles as contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging
... We synthesized highly water-dispersible carbon-coated iron oxide nanoparticles for use as contrast agents in MRI. The coated nanoparticles were observed to be spherical with a core-shell structure in the ...
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Do Iodinated Contrast Agents Impair Fibrinolysis in Acute Stroke? A Systematic Review
... Medline and Embase yielded 1820 and 2081 studies, respec- tively. Screening of the title and abstract and, when necessary, the full text of these studies produced a final result of 18 studies (on-line Fig 1). Six studies ...
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Microwave assisted synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles with higher relaxivities as contrast agents for mri
... There is considerable interest in developing magnetic nanoparticles and their surface modifications with therapeutic agents. The study involves the synthesis of biocompatible HPPH [2-(1- Hexyloxyethyl)-2-devinyl ...
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Proton relaxation enhancement associated with iodinated contrast agents in MR imaging of the CNS
... In vivo evaluation confirms that visible effects in MR imaging are observed with ionic or nonionic iodinated contrast agents that have been administered within 2 hours of the MR study.. [r] ...
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Design And Synthesis Of Gold Nanoparticle Contrast Agents For Atherosclerosis Imaging With Computed Tomography
... Cell tracking offers the opportunity to study migration and localization of cells in vivo, allowing investigations of disease mechanisms and drug efficacy. Monocytes play a key role in the progression of atherosclerotic ...
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Revisiting the risks of MRI with Gadolinium based contrast agents—review of literature and guidelines
... based contrast agents (GBCA) have been linked to the occurrence of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) in renal impaired ...on contrast safety to aide everyday imaging ...
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Use of nanoparticles as contrast agents for the functional and molecular imaging of abdominal aortic aneurysm
... in regenerative medicine (36, 37). For example, mice with spinal cord injury injected with nanofiber conjugated with laminin were reported to show improved neurological function (36). Polylactic-co-glycolic acid NPs ...
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Ultrasound induced fluorescence of nanoscale liposome contrast agents
... microbubble contrast agents for tissue imaging is technically challenging due to their instability to multiple US pulses, short circulation time and heterogeneous size ...these contrast agents ...
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