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An overview of responsive MRI contrast agents for molecular imaging

Byunghee Yoo1, Mark D Pagel

  • 1Case Center for Imaging Research and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Frontiers in Bioscience : a Journal and Virtual Library
|November 6, 2007
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