Enhanced MRI relaxivity of aquated Gd3+ ions by carboxyphenylated water-dispersed graphene nanoribbons

Ayrat Gizzatov, Vazrik Keshishian, Adem Guven, Ayrat M. Dimiev, Feifei Qu, Raja Muthupillai, Paolo Decuzzi, Robert G. Bryant, James M. Tour, Lon J. Wilson

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Abstract

The present study demonstrates that highly water-dispersed graphene nanoribbons dispersed by carboxyphenylated substituents and conjugated to aquated Gd3+ ions can serve as a high-performance contrast agent (CA) for applications in T1- and T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with relaxivity (r1,2) values outperforming currently-available clinical CAs by up to 16 times for r1 and 21 times for r2. This journal is

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3059-3063
Number of pages5
JournalNanoscale
Volume6
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 21 2014

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Materials Science(all)

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