Charles D. Smith, Greg Jicha, Peter Hardy, Partha Sinha, Elizabeth Oates & Gary Conrad Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA Neill R Graff-Radford, Francine Parfitt, Tracy Kendall & Heather Johnson University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA ...
Contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging are mainly Gd3+complexes of octadentate polyaminopolycarboxylates and one water molecule in the first coordination sphere of the metal ion. Both the Ln3+ion and the nitrogen atoms in these complexes may be chiral. Therefore, various isomers may occur ...