摘要:
Diagnostic contrast agents having microbubbles of gas or a gas precursor stabilised by one or more membrane-forming lipids crosslinked or polymerised in the hydrophilic portion thereof may exhibit high degrees of stability and contrast efficacy.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method of imaging of an animate human or non-human animal body, which method comprises: administering parenterally to said body a particulate material comprising a matrix or membrane material and at least one contrast generating species, which matrix or membrane material is responsive to a pre-selected physiological parameter whereby to alter the contrast efficacy of said species in response to a change in the value of said parameters; generating image data of at least part of said body in which said species is present; and generating therefrom a signal indicative of the value or variation of said parameter in said part of said body. The invention also relates to contrast media for imaging a physiological parameter.
摘要:
Microparticulate contrast agents comprising gas or a gas precursor encapsulated by a non-polymeric and non-polymerisable wall-forming material are readily characterisable materials exhibiting surprising structural integrity and stability.
摘要:
Polymer-based gas-containing contrast agents in which microbubbles of gas are encapsulated by non-polymerisable wall-forming block or graft copolymer surfactants. The polymer surfactants are preferably biodegradable and include block and graft copolymers containing linkages of formula (I): -(O)m-CO-O-C(R1R2)-O-CO-(O)¿n?- (where R?1 and R2¿ each represent a hydrogen atom or a carbon-attached monovalent organic group or R?1 and R2¿ together form a carbon-attached divalent organic group and m and n are each zero or 1) which are themselves novel.