Light imaging contrast agents
AssigneeAmersham Health AS
InventorsJo Klaveness, Bjorn Fuglaas, Pål Rongved, Edvin Johannesen, Paul Mark Henrichs, 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.
Claims9
Method of detecting lymph nodes of a human or non-human animal body by in vivo diagnostic light imaging, characterized in that a physiologically tolerable photo-labelled particulate contrast agent comprising gas-containing particles is administered into a lymph draining volume of said body, and wherein said body is illuminated with light of a wavelength in the range 600–1300 nm and an image is generated using detected light of a wavelength in the range 600–1300 nm.
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