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| Year : 2009 | Volume
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Role of chelates in magnetic resonance imaging studies
Laxmi Tripathi1, Praveen Kumar1, Ranjit Singh2
1 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, SD College of Pharmacy and Vocational Studies, Muzaffarnagar, India
2 School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shobhit University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Laxmi Tripathi
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, SD College of Pharmacy and Vocational Studies, Bhopa Road, Muzaffarnagar - 251 001, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.57118
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Imaging studies are tests performed with a variety of techniques that produce pictures of the inside of a patient's body. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an imaging technique based on the principles of nuclear magnetic resonance. MRI uses a powerful magnetic field, radio waves, and a computer to produce detailed pictures of organs, soft tissues, bone, and virtually all other internal body structures. Chelates have a wide application in such imaging techniques. Chelates in imaging studies are used alone as radioactive agents or conjugated to monoclonal antibodies or to DNA as radioactive agents. Technetium chelates and gadolinium chelates are being widely used as magnetic resonance contrast media. |
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