Abstract
A facile one-pot synthesis of d-glucuronic acid-coated ultrasmall Ln 2O3 (Ln = Eu, Gd, Dy, Ho, and Er) nanoparticles is presented. Their water proton relaxivities were studied to address their possibility as a new potential MRI contrast agent. We focused on the d-glucuronic acid-coated ultrasmall Dy2O3 nanoparticle because it showed the highest r2 relaxivity among studied nanoparticles. Its performance as a T2 MRI contrast agent was for the first time proved in vivo through its 3 T T2 MR images of a mouse, showing that it can be further exploited for the rational design of a new T 2 MRI contrast agent at high MR fields.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3325-3334 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 28 Sep 2011 |
Keywords
- LnO
- MRI contrast agent
- one-pot synthesis
- ultrasmall nanoparticle
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