Abstract: The present invention relates to an agent for intravascular administration for diagnostic and/or physiologic investigations, which agent consists of or contains a suspension of minute radioactive particles in a physiologically acceptable liquid.Radioactively labelled microspheres, in suspension in a physiologically acceptable liquid, have lately been increasingly used in circulation studies, studies of the shunting phenomena, microcirculation studies, nutrition studies and as a means for carrying out scintography on man and animals.

Abstract: An X-ray contrast preparation comprising a) a finely divided water-insoluble inorganic X-ray contrast producing substance and b) minute particles of a hydrophilic polymer containing amino groups, which polymer is insoluble in water at body temperature and which consists of a water-insoluble, but water-swellable three-dimensional network held together by bonds of a covalent nature, said polymer containing a certain amount of amino groups and the average particle size of the polymer particles lying within a certain range. The preparation is intended for the X-ray examination of body cavities having outer discharge orifices. It adheres very effectively to the walls of the body cavities.