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US 7,547,721 B1Granted
Near infrared fluorescent contrast agent and fluorescence imaging
AssigneesBayer Schering Pharma Aktiengesellschaft, Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorsNaoto Miwa, Michihito Inagaki, Hiroaki Eguchi, Masafumi Okumura, Yoshio Inagaki, Toru Harada
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a compound defined by a formula herein, a composition and/or a method relating to one or more of the defined compounds.
Claims4
A method of near infrared fluorescence imaging comprising introducing a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of the formula
- and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier into a living body, exposing the body to excitation radiation, and detecting near infrared fluorescence from said compound.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.