Ebook: The chemistry of contrast agents in medical magnetic resonance imaging

Content:
Chapter 1 General Principles of MRI (pages 1–23): Bich?Thuy Doan, Sandra Meme and Jean?Claude Beloeil
Chapter 2 Relaxivity of Gadolinium(III) Complexes: Theory and Mechanism (pages 25–81): eva Toth, Lothar Helm and Andre Merbach
Chapter 3 Synthesis and Characterization of Ligands and their Gadolinium(III) Complexes (pages 83–155): Jan Kotek, Vojtech Kubicek, Petr Hermann and Ivan Lukes
Chapter 4 Stability and Toxicity of Contrast Agents (pages 157–208): Ern?o Brucher, Gyula Tircso, Zsolt Baranyai, Zoltan Kovacs and A. Dean Sherry
Chapter 5 Structure, Dynamics, and Computational Studies of Lanthanide?Based Contrast Agents (pages 209–276): Joop A. Peters, Kristina Djanashvili, Carlos F. G. C. Geraldes and Carlos Platas?iglesias
Chapter 6 Electronic Spin Relaxation and Outer?Sphere Dynamics of Gadolinium?Based Contrast Agents (pages 277–309): Pascal H. Fries and Elie Belorizky
Chapter 7 Targeted MRI Contrast Agents (pages 311–342): Peter Caravan and Zhaoda Zhang
Chapter 8 Responsive Probes (pages 343–385): Celia S. Bonnet, Lorenzo Tei, Mauro Botta and eva Toth
Chapter 9 Paramagnetic CEST MRI Contrast Agents (pages 387–425): Enzo Terreno, Daniela Delli Castelli and Silvio Aime
Chapter 10 Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for MRI (pages 427–447): Sophie Laurent, Luce Vander Elst and Robert N. Muller
Chapter 11 Gd?Containing Nanoparticles as MRI Contrast Agents (pages 449–487): Klaas Nicolay, Gustav Strijkers and Holger Grull