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FUTURE MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 11, Issue 10, Pages 1157-1175Publisher
FUTURE SCI LTD
DOI: 10.4155/fmc-2018-0463
Keywords
cell tracking; contrast agents; drug delivery; fluorine; gadolinium complexes; medical imaging; MRI; paramagnetic compounds; PFC
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- European Regional Development Fund
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MRI has been recognized as one of the most applied medical imaging techniques in clinical practice. However, the presence of background signal coming from water protons in surrounding tissues makes sometimes the visualization of local contrast agents difficult. To remedy this, fluorine has been introduced as a reliable perspective, thanks to its magnetic properties being relatively close to those of protons. In this review, we aim to give an overall description of fluorine incorporation in contrast agents for MRI. The different kinds of fluorinated probes such as perfluorocarbons, fluorinated dendrimers, polymers and paramagnetic probes will be described, as will their imaging applications such as chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) imaging, physico-chemical changes detection, drug delivery, cell tracking and inflammation or tumors detection.
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