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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 22.
Published in final edited form as: Contrast Media Mol Imaging. 2009 Mar-Apr;4(2):89–100. doi: 10.1002/cmmi.267

Figure 9.

Figure 9

Strategies to achieve high relaxivity compounds at high fields. A) the metal ion is placed at the barycenter of the molecule limiting effects of internal motion; correlation time can be increased by adding pendant groups. B) correlation time and metal content increased by making a rigid multimer. Targeting groups should be linked via flexible linkers to decouple the motion at the metal ion from the macromolecule.