Issue 79, 2020
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Chemical Communications

Visualising brain capillaries in magnetic resonance images via supramolecular self-assembly†

Atsushi Mahara, ORCID logo *a   Shigeyoshi Saitobc  and  Tetsuji Yamaoka ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Kishibe Shin-machi, Suita, Osaka 564-8565, Japan
E-mail: mahara@ncvc.go.jp, yamtet@ncvc.go.jp

b Department of Investigative Radiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Kishibe Shin-machi, Suita, Osaka 564-8565, Japan

c Department of Medical Physics and Engineering, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 1-7 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

Abstract

We report the supramolecular self-assembly of one fluorescein and three Gd–chelate conjugated 8-arm polyethylene glycols (8-arm PEG-FGd3) for visualising the capillaries of the brain in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Graphical abstract: Visualising brain capillaries in magnetic resonance images via supramolecular self-assembly

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC04372A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
24 Jun 2020
Accepted
25 Aug 2020
First published
26 Aug 2020

Chem. Commun., 2020,56, 11807-11810

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Visualising brain capillaries in magnetic resonance images via supramolecular self-assembly

A. Mahara, S. Saito and T. Yamaoka, Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 11807 DOI: 10.1039/D0CC04372A

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