Controlled Self-Assembling of Gadolinium Nanoparticles as Smart Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents
✍ Scribed by Dr. Gaolin Liang; Dr. John Ronald; Dr. Yuanxin Chen; Dr. Deju Ye; Dr. Prachi Pandit; Man Lung Ma; Prof. Brian Rutt; Prof. Jianghong Rao
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 502 KB
- Volume
- 123
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-8249
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✦ Synopsis
Scheme 1. Reduction-controlled condensation of 1 to assemble gadolinium-containing nanoparticles (Gd NPs). Compound 2 is the control probe that cannot be reduced to induce condensation. [
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