“…For the synthesis of the former, the methods of microwave heating [22], solution combustion [23,24], thermal decomposition [25][26][27], solid-state reaction [28,29], sol-gel [30,31], forced hydrolysis [32], and co-precipitation [33,34] A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 5 synthesized by the aqueous co-precipitation method. ZCFNPs were characterized by different physical and chemical methods, and relaxivities r 2 and r 2 * were measured with a clinical 1.5 T MRI scanner in vitro.…”