Improving Proton Relaxivity of Dendritic MRI Contrast Agents by Rigid Silsesquioxane Core
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عنوان ژورنال: Polymer Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1349-0540,0032-3896
DOI: 10.1295/polymj.pj2008274