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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:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Philipp Lang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Olivier Meyer, Strasbourg, FR;
Michael F. Wendland, Benicia, CA (US);
Maythem Saeed, Novato, CA (US);
Assignee:
Philipp Lang, Lexington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 ; A61K 9/127 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 ; A61K 9/127 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to the field of diagnostic imaging and more specifically to the field of monitoring drug delivery using non-invasive imaging techniques. The present invention provides for imaging agents and compositions useful for NMR, computed tomography, scintigraphy, PET and any other type of imaging where the imaging agent can be carried by liposomes or other lipid based vehicles, such as micelles or suspended lipid aggregates.