8th ESMRMB-GREC meeting
The chemical approach to improved MRI-contrast agents

Programme

• 11:45 – 12:00 15 Min. 0 Min.

  • Lecture

  Seeking for innovation with magnetic resonance imaging paramagnetic contrast agents – relaxation enhancement via reversible, weak, electrostatic/cation-p interactions with protonated amino groups or endogenous macromolecules

  • Lorenzo Palagi (Turin, IT)
• 12:00 – 12:10 0 Min. 10 Min.

  • Discussion

  GREC Discussion
• 12:10 – 12:20 10 Min. 0 Min.

  • Lecture

  The late phase clinical development program for gadoquatrane – a novel tetrameric GBCA

  • Petra Palkowitsch (Bayer)
• 12:20 – 12:30 10 Min. 0 Min.

  • Lecture

  Development and evaluation of magnetic properties of a new manganese (II)-dithiocarbamate complexes as MRI contrast agents

  • Alessandra Boschi (Ferrara, IT)
  • Petra Martini (Ferrara, IT)
• 12:30 – 12:40 10 Min. 0 Min.

  • Lecture

  Evaluation of iodinated contrast media as MRI-CEST contrast agents and comparison with gadolinium

  • Dario Longo (Turin, IT)
• 12:40 – 13:00 20 Min. 0 Min.

  • Lecture

  High Relaxivity gadopiclenol for diagnostic MRI – the PICTURE and PROMISE phase III clinical trials

  • Jean-Sebastian Raynaud (Guerbet)
• 13:00 – 13:30 0 Min. 30 Min.

  • Discussion

  Questions and remarks