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US 6,540,981 B2Granted
Light imaging contrast agents
AssigneeAmersham Health AS
InventorsJo Klaveness, Bjorn Fuglass, Pål Rongved, Edvin Johannesen, Paul Mark Hendrichs, Wolfgang Hans Heinrich Gunther, Edward Richard Bacon, John Luke Toner, Gregory Lynn McIntire, Vinay C. Desai
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the use of particulate materials as contrast agents in in vivo light imaging.
Claims31
A method of generating an image of the human or non-human animal body by in vivo diagnostic light imaging, characterized in that a physiologically tolerable particulate contrast agent comprising a compound of formula
- I3Ph—L—C*
- wherein I3Ph is a triiodophenyl moiety, L is a linker and C* is a chromophore or fluorophore is administered into said body and an image of at least part of said body containing said contrast agent is generated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.