Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 24(46), p. 4399
DOI: 10.1039/c0cc00107d
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Paramagnetic liposomes used as contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) often suffer from low efficacies because of slow water diffusion through the membrane. We present an approach to overcome this limitation by incorporation of a calix[4]arene based agent that expresses the chelates towards the bulk water.