[HTML][HTML] Review of strategies to reduce the contamination of the water environment by gadolinium-based contrast agents

HM Dekker, GJ Stroomberg, AJ Van der Molen… - Insights into …, 2024 - Springer
Gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCA) are essential for diagnostic MRI examinations.
GBCA are only used in small quantities on a per-patient basis; however, the acquisition of …

Gadolinium based contrast agents (GBCAs): Uniqueness, aquatic toxicity concerns, and prospective remediation

IE Oluwasola, AL Ahmad, NF Shoparwe… - Journal of Contaminant …, 2022 - Elsevier
The current toxicity concerns of gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) have birthed the
need to regulate and, sometimes restrict its clinical administration. However, tolerable …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic gadolinium in freshwater and drinking water systems

R Brünjes, T Hofmann - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
The increasing use of gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) for magnetic resonance
imaging is leading to widespread contamination of freshwater and drinking water systems …

Are the increasing amounts of gadolinium in surface and tap water dangerous?

HS Thomsen - Acta Radiologica, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Since its introduction in the early 1980s, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an
indispensable modality for diagnostic imaging. Gadolinium (Gd)-based contrast media have …

Contrast Media–driven Anthropogenic Gadolinium: Knowns and Unknowns

RE Lenkinski, NM Rofsky - Radiology, 2024 - pubs.rsna.org
Gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) have augmented the capabilities of MRI, which
has led to their widespread and increasing use in radiology practice. GBCAs are introduced …

Gadolinium as a new emerging contaminant of aquatic environments

J Rogowska, E Olkowska, W Ratajczyk… - Environmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Since the 1980s, gadolinium (Gd)–based contrast agents (GBCAs) have been routinely
used in magnetic resonance imaging as stable chelates of the Gd3+ ion, without toxic …

Retention concerns about MR studies using gadolinium-based contrast agents

PB Barker, DDM Lin, M Mahesh - Journal of the American College of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Since the early days of radiology, the administration of exogenous contrast agents has been
an essential part of many diagnostic imaging procedures. In the context of MRI, nearly all …

[HTML][HTML] Gadolinium as an emerging microcontaminant in water resources: threats and opportunities

P Ebrahimi, M Barbieri - Geosciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
As a result of high doses of paramagnetic gadolinium (Gd) chelates administered in
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams, their unmetabolized excretion, and insufficient …

Fast and automated monitoring of gadolinium-based contrast agents in surface waters

M Macke, CD Quarles Jr, M Sperling, U Karst - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) are frequently used for magnetic resonance
imaging to improve image contrast. These inert complexes are excreted unmetabolized from …

Determination of gadolinium-based MRI contrast agents in biological and environmental samples: a review

L Telgmann, M Sperling, U Karst - Analytica chimica acta, 2013 - Elsevier
The development of analytical methods and strategies to determine gadolinium and its
complexes in biological and environmental matrices is evaluated in this review. Gadolinium …