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. 2016 Jan 1;6(1):28–39. doi: 10.7150/thno.13137

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Comparison of LC Bead and Radiopaque LC Bead (RO Bead) dye attachment. Acrylamido polyvinyl alcohol-co-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonate hydrogel (PVA-AMPS) beads are reacted with Reactive Blue 4 (RB4) to make LC Bead visible (blue) to the user. RB4 is substituted with a triiodobenzyl moiety via a linker (L) for RO Beads which imparts a slight yellow color and importantly renders them visible on X-ray.