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Bidinosti CP, Tastevin G, Nacher PJ. Generating accurate tip angles for NMR outside the rotating-wave approximation. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2022; 345:107306. [PMID: 36434882 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2022.107306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Revised: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
The generation of accurate tip angles is critical for many applications of nuclear magnetic resonance. In low static field, with a linear rather than circular polarized rf field, the rotating-wave approximation may no longer hold and significant deviations from expected trajectories on the Bloch sphere can occur. For rectangular rf pulses, the effects depend strongly on the phase of the rf field and can be further compounded by transients at the start and end of the pulse. The desired terminus can be still be achieved, however, through the application of a phase-dependent Bloch-Siegert shift and appropriate consideration of pulse timings. For suitably shaped rf pulses, the Bloch-Siegert shift is largely phase independent, but its magnitude can vary significantly depending on details of the pulse shape as well as the characteristics of the rf coil circuit. We present numerical simulations and low-field NMR experiments with 1H and 3He that demonstrate several main consequences and accompanying strategies that one should consider when wanting to generate accurate tip angles outside the validity of the rotating-wave approximation and in low static field.
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Collège de France, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Collège de France, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France.
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Lee SJ, Jeong K, Shim JH, Lee HJ, Min S, Chae H, Namgoong SK, Kim K. SQUID-based ultralow-field MRI of a hyperpolarized material using signal amplification by reversible exchange. Sci Rep 2019; 9:12422. [PMID: 31455823 PMCID: PMC6712030 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-48827-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2019] [Accepted: 08/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The signal amplification by reversible exchange (SABRE) technique is a very promising method for increasing magnetic resonance (MR) signals. SABRE can play a particularly large role in studies with a low or ultralow magnetic field because they suffer from a low signal-to-noise ratio. In this work, we conducted real-time superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID)-based nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies in a microtesla-range magnetic field using the SABRE technique after designing a bubble-separated phantom. A maximum enhancement of 2658 for 1H was obtained for pyridine in the SABRE-NMR experiment. A clear SABRE-enhanced MR image of the bubble-separated phantom, in which the para-hydrogen gas was bubbling at only the margin, was successfully obtained at 34.3 μT. The results show that SABRE can be successfully incorporated into an ultralow-field MRI system, which enables new SQUID-based MRI applications. SABRE can shorten the MRI operation time by more than 6 orders of magnitude and establish a firm basis for future low-field MRI applications.
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- Seong-Joo Lee
- Ultra-low Magnetic Field Team, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Military Academy, 574, Hwarang-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 01805, Republic of Korea
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- Ultra-low Magnetic Field Team, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34113, Republic of Korea.,Department of Medical Physics, University of Science and Technology (UST), 217, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Ultra-low Magnetic Field Team, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34113, Republic of Korea.,Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), 218, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34129, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul Women's University, 621, Hwarang-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 01797, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul Women's University, 621, Hwarang-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 01797, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul Women's University, 621, Hwarang-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 01797, Republic of Korea
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- Ultra-low Magnetic Field Team, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34113, Republic of Korea. .,Department of Medical Physics, University of Science and Technology (UST), 217, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34113, Republic of Korea.
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Hilschenz I, Oh S, Lee SJ, Yu KK, Hwang SM, Kim K, Shim JH. Dynamic nuclear polarisation of liquids at one microtesla using circularly polarised RF with application to millimetre resolution MRI. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2019; 305:138-145. [PMID: 31280186 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2019.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2019] [Revised: 06/18/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Magnetic resonance imaging in ultra-low fields is often limited by mediocre signal-to-noise ratio hindering a higher resolution. Overhauser dynamic nuclear polarisation (O-DNP) using nitroxide radicals has been an efficient solution for enhancing the thermal nuclear polarisation. However, the concurrence of positive and negative polarisation enhancements arises in ultra-low fields resulting in a significantly reduced net enhancement, making O-DNP far less attractive. Here, we address this issue by applying circularly polarised RF. O-DNP with circularly polarised RF renders a considerably improved enhancement factor of around 150,000 at 1.2 μT. A birdcage coil was adopted into an ultra-low field MRI system to generate the circularly polarised RF field homogeneously over a large volume. We acquired an MR image of a nitroxide radical solution with an average in-plane resolution of 1 mm. De-noising through compressive sensing further improved the image quality.
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- Ingo Hilschenz
- Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea; Department of Medical Physics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea; Department of Medical Physics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea; Department of Medical Physics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea.
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Sjolander TF, Tayler MCD, King JP, Budker D, Pines A. Transition-Selective Pulses in Zero-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:4343-8. [PMID: 27243376 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b04017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We use low-amplitude, ultralow frequency pulses to drive nuclear spin transitions in zero and ultralow magnetic fields. In analogy to high-field NMR, a range of sophisticated experiments becomes available as these allow narrow-band excitation. As a first demonstration, pulses with excitation bandwidths 0.5-5 Hz are used for population redistribution, selective excitation, and coherence filtration. These methods are helpful when interpreting zero- and ultralow-field NMR spectra that contain a large number of transitions.
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- Tobias F Sjolander
- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley , Berkeley, California 94720-3220, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley , Berkeley, California 94720-7300, United States.,Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge , Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3RA, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley , Berkeley, California 94720-3220, United States.,Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley California 94720-3220, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley , Berkeley, California 94720-7300, United States.,Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley California 94720-3220, United States.,Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg University , 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley , Berkeley, California 94720-3220, United States.,Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley California 94720-3220, United States
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Lee SJ, Shim JH, Kim K, Yu KK, Hwang SM. Dynamic nuclear polarization in the hyperfine-field-dominant region. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2015; 255:114-121. [PMID: 25955437 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2015.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2014] [Revised: 03/27/2015] [Accepted: 04/13/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) allows measuring enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals. Though the efficiency of DNP has been known to increase at low fields, the usefulness of DNP has not been throughly investigated yet. Here, using a superconducting quantum interference device-based NMR system, we performed a series of DNP experiments with a nitroxide radical and measured DNP spectra at several magnetic fields down to sub-microtesla. In the DNP spectra, the large overlap of two peaks having opposite signs results in net enhancement factors, which are significantly lower than theoretical expectations and nearly invariant with respect to magnetic fields below the Earth's field. The numerical analysis based on the radical's Hamiltonian provides qualitative explanations of such features. The net enhancement factor reached 325 at maximum experimentally, but our analysis reveals that the local enhancement factor at the center of the rf coil is 575, which is unaffected by detection schemes. We conclude that DNP in the hyperfine-field-dominant region yields sufficiently enhanced NMR signals at magnetic fields above 1 μT.
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- Seong-Joo Lee
- Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-340, Republic of Korea.
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- Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-340, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-340, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-340, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-340, Republic of Korea
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Lee SJ, Shim JH, Kim K, Hwang SM, Yu KK, Lim S, Han JH, Yim H, Kim JH, Jung YS, Kim KS. T 1 relaxation measurement of ex-vivo breast cancer tissues at ultralow magnetic fields. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2015; 2015:385428. [PMID: 25705658 PMCID: PMC4326347 DOI: 10.1155/2015/385428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2014] [Revised: 10/15/2014] [Accepted: 10/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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We investigated T 1 relaxations of ex-vivo cancer tissues at low magnetic fields in order to check the possibility of achieving a T 1 contrast higher than those obtained at high fields. The T 1 relaxations of fifteen pairs (normal and cancerous) of breast tissue samples were measured at three magnetic fields, 37, 62, and 122 μT, using our superconducting quantum interference device-based ultralow field nuclear magnetic resonance setup, optimally developed for ex-vivo tissue studies. A signal reconstruction based on Bayesian statistics for noise reduction was exploited to overcome the low signal-to-noise ratio. The ductal and lobular-type tissues did not exhibit meaningful T 1 contrast values between normal and cancerous tissues at the three different fields. On the other hand, an enhanced T 1 contrast was obtained for the mucinous cancer tissue.
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- Seong-Joo Lee
- Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-340, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-340, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-340, Republic of Korea
- Department of Medical Physics, University of Science and Technology (UST), 217 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-340, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-340, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 267 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-340, Republic of Korea
- Department of Medical Physics, University of Science and Technology (UST), 217 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pathology, Ajou University School of Medicine, 164 World Cup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-380, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pathology, Ajou University School of Medicine, 164 World Cup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-380, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pathology, Ajou University School of Medicine, 164 World Cup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-380, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, 164 World Cup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-380, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, 164 World Cup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-380, Republic of Korea
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Shim JH, Lee SJ, Hwang SM, Yu KK, Kim K. Two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy of (13)C methanol at less than 5 μT. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2014; 246:4-8. [PMID: 25063950 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2014.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2014] [Revised: 06/19/2014] [Accepted: 06/20/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy is one of the most significant applications of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Here, we demonstrate that the 2D NMR can be performed even at a low magnetic field of less than 5μT, which is ten times less than the Earth's magnetic field. The pulses used in the experiment were composed of circularly polarized fields for coherent as well as wideband excitations. Since the excitation band covers the entire spectral range, the simplest two-pulse sequence delivered the full 2D spectrum. At 5μT, methanol with (13)C enriched up to 99% belongs to a strongly coupled regime, and thus its 2D spectrum exhibits complicated spectral correlations, which can be exploited as a fingerprint in chemical analysis. In addition, we show that, with compressive sensing, the acquisition of the 2D spectrum can be accelerated to take only 45% of the overall duration.
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- Jeong Hyun Shim
- (a)Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 350-340, Republic of Korea.
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- (a)Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 350-340, Republic of Korea
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- (a)Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 350-340, Republic of Korea
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- (a)Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 350-340, Republic of Korea
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- (a)Center for Biosignals, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 350-340, Republic of Korea; (b)Department of Medical Physics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea
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