“…To date, more than nine types of the ligand of paramagnetic metal ionchelate complexes have been approved by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clinical application. A vast body of literature exists describing ligands for Gd(III), and the majority are polyaminopolycarboxylate ligands, like Gd-DTPA (DTPA=diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid), Gd-DOTA (DOTA=1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,4,7,10-tetraacetic acid), Gd(HP-DO3A) (HP-DO3A=10-(2-hydroxypropyl)-1,4,7,10-tetra-azacyclododecane-1,4,7-triacetic acid), etc [8][9][10] .…”