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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2013
Stichting Radboud Universitair Medisch Centrum, Nijmegen, NL;
Carl Gustav Figdor, 's-Hertogenbosch, NL;
Ingrid Jolanda Monique De Vries, Nijmegen, NL;
Mangala Srinivas, Utrecht, NL;
Luis Javier Cruz Ricondo, Nijmegen, NL;
Christoffel Leendert De Korte, Zeist, NL;
STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM, Nijmegen, NL;
Abstract
The present invention relates to contrast agent enhanced medical ultrasound imaging. In particular, the contrast agents provided are useful for cell imaging and cell therapy, as well as in vivo targeting, drug delivery and perfusion or vascular imaging applications. More specifically, it provides a particle comprising a fluorinated organic compound and a metal. Such particles may be advantageously employed in qualitative or quantitative imaging such as acoustic imaging including photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging, MRI imaging, such as 19F imaging, 1H imaging including T1 and T2 weighted imaging, SPECT, PET, scintigraphy, fluorescence imaging and optical coherence imaging and tomographic applications. This may then be employed in cell labeling, microscopy, histology or for imaging vasculature or perfusion in vivo and in vitro.