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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Medgenix Group S.A., Liege, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ; C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424-9 ; 562565 ; 436173 ; 1286534 ; 534 16 ; 556 50 ; 556 63 ; 556107 ; 556116 ; 556134 ; 556148 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a contrast agent for NMR imaging constituted by a complex between a chelating agent and paramagnetic metal cations, wherein said complex corresponds to the formula I: ##STR1## or a physiologically acceptable salt of this complex, in which formula: n and n' are whole numbers from 1 to 4