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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contrast Media Mol Imaging. 2014 Oct 29;10(4):245–265. doi: 10.1002/cmmi.1629

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic of the six physicochemical mechanisms that can be exploited to create a responsive MRI contrast agent: a) a change in tumbling time; b) a change in aggregation state that changes superparamagnetism; c) a change in chemical exchange rate between the agent and water; d) a change in water accessibility; e) a change in ligand proximity; f) a change in electronic state.