Acoustically reflective liposomes and methods to make and use th

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1996-06-06

1999-01-12

Kishore, Gollamudi S.

Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions

Preparations characterized by special physical form

Liposomes

424951, 4284022, 436829, A61K 9127

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058583998

ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to tissue specific acoustically reflective oligolamellar liposomes containing internally separated bilayers and methods to make and to use the same, alone as a perfusion ultrasonic contrast agent or conjugated to a ligand for tissue-specific ultrasonic image enhancement.

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