“…As noted in the previous section, electronic relaxation can influence low field (<1 MHz) relaxivities; however, the similarity in relaxivity at 20 MHz for [Gd(DOTA)(H 2 O)] - , [Gd(DTPA)(H 2 O)] 2- , and [Gd(DTPA-BMA)(H 2 O)] can be attributed to the similar rotational correlation times of the three complexes. In Tables and , relaxivities are collected for a variety of gadolinium(III) chelates. ,,− ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,− ,,,− Tweedle and co-workers have shown that relaxivity per gadolinium(III) correlates well with molecular weight for a series of monomeric and multimeric gadolinium(III) chelates (Charts −19) and this is shown in Figure (data in Table ). For spheroidal molecules, increases in relaxivity increase approximately with increasing molecular weight.…”