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Although it is thought that perfluoro-2,4-dimethyl-3-isopropyl-3-pentyl (PFR-2) is a candidate for electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) imaging agents because of its high stability, no study has been made yet on the EPR imaging of PFR-2. In this study, EPR imaging of a phantom including PFR-2 and mice that had received PFR-2 was performed by an in vivo EPR imaging system operating at an EPR frequency of 700 MHz equipped with a bridged loop-gap resonator (inner diameter, 41 mm; axial length, 10 mm). Because PFR-2 is insoluble in water, it was dissolved in perfluorocarbon. The PFR-2 solution was put in cylindrical sample tubes with various inner diameters, and these sample tubes were placed together in a larger cylindrical sample tube filled with a physiological saline solution, which was used as a phantom. The spatial resolution was estimated to be about 3 mm on the basis of EPR imaging of the phantom. EPR images of mice that had received a PFR-2 injection via the intraperitoneal route indicated that PFR-2 remained in the peritoneal cavity even 2 days after the injection. This finding suggests that it is possible to perform EPR imaging of experimental animals using PFR-2 as an imaging agent which persists in a biological system.
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Authors' address: Hidekatsu Yokoyama, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 2266-98 Anagahora, Shimoshidami, Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 463-8560, Japan
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Yokoyama, H., Ono, T. & Yoshimura, T. In Vivo EPR Imaging of a Perfluoroalkyl Radical in Mouse Abdomen. Appl Magn Reson 32, 283–291 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00723-007-0022-3
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