Francisco Perez-Balderas1, Benjamin G. Davis2,
Sander van Kasteren2, Alexandr Khrapichev1, Daniel
Anthony3, Nicola R. Sibson1
1CR-UK/MRC Gray Institute for Radiation
Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 2Chemistry
Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 3Department
of Pharmacology, Univerity of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Biodegradable
multimeric iron oxide microparticles were obtained by conjugation of iron
oxide nanoparticles through peptides. These multimeric particles constitute
an ideal platform for new highly sensitive and specific MRI contrast agents.