Diagnostic magnetometry using superparamagnetic particles
AssigneeNycomed Imaging AS
InventorsJo Klaveness, Thorfinn Ege, Scott M. Rocklage
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Abstract
The use of superparamagnetic particles and of paramagnetic materials (such as lanthanide chelates) as contrast agents in magnetometric analysis, especially imaging, and in particular structural and functional, diagnosis or imaging is described.
Claims11
A method of generating a magnetometric image of the human or non-human animal body comprising administering to said body a physiologically tolerable superparamagnetic material and generating a magnetometric signal of at least part of said body into which said material distributes.
A process for detecting variations in magnetic susceptibility within a human or non-human animal body, comprising administering to said body a physiologically tolerable superparamagnetic material, and with a magnetometer continuously or repeatedly monitoring the magnetic susceptibility of at least a part of said body into which said material distributes.
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