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Abstract #4226

Galbumin, a New Blood Pool Agent, Extravasates from Tumour Vasculature

Firas Moosvi1,2, Jennifer Baker3, Stefan A. Reinsberg4

1Physics, University of British Columbia, Richmond, BC, Canada; 2Medical Biophysics, BC Cancer Research Center, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 3Medical Biophysics, BC Cancer Research Center, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 4Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada


A macromolecular contrast agent (Galbumin) is shown to slowly extravasate in "leaky" tumour vasculature. We use fluorescent microscopy and dynamic contrast enhanced MRI to prove this.