“… 9 , 47 The different conjugations of SPIONs to plain MBs, as well as the physical, magnetic, and US-imaging properties of these MBs were recently reported. 7 , 22 , 23 , 28 , 29 , 31 , 32 , 49 , 54 The in vitro T 2 *-relaxivity, biodistribution, and in vivo pharmacokinetics of one of these MBs were evaluated using histology and MRI, 4 and just recently a study by Sciallero et al . fully characterizing the US and MR imaging properties of these bubbles was published.…”