Photochromically-controlled, reversibly-activated MRI and optical contrast agent
- 18 January 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 13,p. 1331-1333
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b616991k
Abstract
The contrast agent which tethers a spiropyran group to a Gd-DO3A moiety has higher relaxivity and fluorescence intensity in the dark; the relaxivity and fluorescence intensity decrease after irradiation with visible light.Keywords
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