In the 1980s, developments in healthcare led to the introduction of gadolinium complexes as
contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging and targeted radiotherapeutic agents …

Lanthanide complexes are of increasing importance in cancer diagnosis and therapy, owing
to the versatile chemical and magnetic properties of the lanthanide-ion 4f electronic …

Conspectus Complexes of lanthanide (III) ions are being actively studied because of their
unique ground and excited state properties and the associated optical and magnetic …

Over the past 10 years there has been a resurgence of interest in the coordination chemistry
of lanthanide complexes in aqueous solution. Excitement in this work may be related to an …

In the objective of developing ligands that simultaneously satisfy the requirements for MRI
contrast agents and near-infrared emitting optical probes that are suitable for imaging, three …

In this mini-review, we present some recent development of lanthanide complexes in
biomedical imaging, in particular MRI, optical imaging and multi-modal imaging probes …

The essential biological role of rare earth elements lay hidden until the discovery in 2011
that lanthanides are specifically incorporated into a bacterial methanol dehydrogenase. Only …

Trivalent lanthanide ions offer remarkable opportunities in the design of bioimaging agents:
this review presents an accessible discussion of their application in both optical and …

Lanthanides complexes are indispensable in fields related to medicine and biology. Their
success lies in the great number of unpaired electrons (4f 7 configuration of the Gd 3+ ion) …

The peculiar magnetic properties of lanthanide (III) ions may be exploited for the
development of powerful NMR probes for biomedical applications. GdIII chelates are in …