Patent ID: 6280706
Filing Date: 2001-08-28
Classification: A61K,A61P

Abstract:
A method of generating an image of an animate human or non-human animal subject involving administering a contrast agent to said subject and generating by means of a light imaging modality an image of at least a part of said subject to which said contrast agent has distributed, wherein said contrast agent is a metal complex of a compound of formula IV ##STR7##whereineach R.sup.3, which may be the same or different, is H or a thiol protecting group;each R.sup.4, which may be the same or different, is H or CH.sub.3 ;R.sup.5 is hydrogen or optionally substituted alkyl, aryl, alkaryl or aralkyl; andR.sup.6 is H or CH.sub.2 COOH;or a salt thereof.