Chemistry of MRI contrast agents: current challenges and new frontiers

J Wahsner, EM Gale, A Rodríguez-Rodríguez… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Tens of millions of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams are
performed annually around the world. The contrast agents, which improve diagnostic …

Molecular magnetic resonance imaging with Gd (III)-based contrast agents: challenges and key advances

H Li, TJ Meade - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019 - ACS Publications
In an era of personalized medicine, the clinical community has become increasingly focused
on understanding diseases at the cellular and molecular levels. Magnetic resonance …

Molecular magnetic resonance imaging using a redox-active iron complex

H Wang, VC Jordan, IA Ramsay… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We introduce a redox-active iron complex, Fe-PyC3A, as a biochemically responsive MRI
contrast agent. Switching between Fe3+-PyC3A and Fe2+-PyC3A yields a full order of …

Harnessing the properties of cobalt coordination complexes for biological application

AK Renfrew, ES O'Neill, TW Hambley… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2018 - Elsevier
Cobalt is an essential metal that is found in very low abundance in the body and the
environment. Cobalt coordination complexes exhibit interesting redox and magnetic …

Metal-based redox-responsive MRI contrast agents

SM Pinto, V Tomé, MJF Calvete, MMCA Castro… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
Given their potential in a better characterization and diagnosis of major pathologies like
cancer or chronic inflammation, redox-activated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) probes …

Exploiting Copper Redox for 19F Magnetic Resonance-Based Detection of Cellular Hypoxia

D Xie, TL King, A Banerjee, V Kohli… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report a pair of fluorinated, redox-active copper complexes for potential use as 19F MRI
contrast agents for detecting cellular hypoxia. Trifluorinated Cu (II) ATSM-F3 displays the …

Including and declaring structural fluctuations in the study of Lanthanide (III) coordination chemistry in solution

LG Nielsen, TJ Sørensen - Inorganic chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
The physicochemical properties of lanthanide (III) ions are directly linked to the structure of
the surrounding ligands. Rapid ligand exchange prohibits direct structure–property …

19F PARASHIFT Probes for Magnetic Resonance Detection of H2O2 and Peroxidase Activity

M Yu, BS Bouley, D Xie, JS Enriquez… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Elevated levels of reactive oxygen species and peroxidase expression are often associated
with inflammation and inflammatory diseases. We developed two novel Co (II) complexes …

Fluorinated Eu II-based multimodal contrast agent for temperature-and redox-responsive magnetic resonance imaging

LA Basal, MD Bailey, J Romero, MM Ali… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using redox-active, EuII-containing complexes is one of
the most promising techniques for noninvasively imaging hypoxia in vivo. In this technique …

Lanthanide-based tools for the investigation of cellular environments

E Mathieu, A Sipos, E Demeyere, D Phipps… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Biological probes constructed from lanthanides can provide a variety of readout signals,
such as the luminescence of Eu (III), Tb (III), Yb (III), Sm (III) and Dy (III), and the proton …