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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1990
Filed:
May. 08, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Randall B Lauffer, Boston, MA (US);
Thomas J Brady, Winchester, MA (US);
Assignee:
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128654 ;
Abstract
A method of altering proton NMR relaxation times in the liver or bile duct of a human patient involving administering to the patient an agent characterized in that it is taken up preferentially by human hepatocytes, compared to human reticuloendothelial cells, and it contains a paramagnetic substance capable of altering the proton NMR relaxation times in the hepatocytes.