@article {278, title = {Volume-selective magnetic resonance imaging using an adjustable, single-sided, portable sensor}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America}, volume = {105}, year = {2008}, note = {P Natl Acad Sci USA389LBTimes Cited:11Cited References Count:29}, month = {Dec 30}, pages = {20601-20604}, abstract = {

Portable, single-sided NMR sensors can operate under conditions inaccessible to conventional NMR while featuring lower cost, portability, and the ability to analyze arbitrary-sized objects. Such sensors can nondestructively probe the interior of samples by collecting images and measuring relaxation and diffusion constants, and, given careful shimming schemes, even perform chemical analysis. The inherently strong magnetic-field gradients of single-sided sensors developed so far has prevented imaging of materials with high water content, such as biological tissues, over large volumes whereas designs with more homogeneous fields suffer from low field strength and typically cannot probe volumes larger than approximate to 10 cm(3). We present a design with a continuously adjustable sensitive volume, enabling the effective volume to be enlarged several fold. This capability allows for imaging in reasonable times of much bigger objects and opens the door to the possibility of clinical imaging with portable sensors. We demonstrate MRI in axial and sagittal planes, at different depths of the sensitive volume and T(1)-weighted contrast in a tissue sample.

}, keywords = {xenon}, isbn = {0027-8424}, doi = {Doi 10.1073/Pnas.0811222106}, url = {://WOS:000262092800008}, author = {Paulsen, J. L. and Bouchard, L. S. and Graziani, D. and Blumich, B. and Pines, A.} } @article {329, title = {Variable angle spinning (VAS) NMR study of solvent effects in liquid crystalline solutions of C-13-iodomethane}, journal = {Chemical Physics Letters}, volume = {399}, year = {2004}, note = {Chem Phys Lett874AXTimes Cited:5Cited References Count:28}, month = {Nov 21}, pages = {196-199}, abstract = {

NMR spectra of C-13-iodomethane oriented in three different liquid crystalline solvents have been collected and analyzed under spinning at various angles with respect to the static magnetic field. For each sample the ratio of homonuclear (H-1-H-1) to heteronuclear (C-13-H-1) dipolar couplings, which is a function of the geometry of the solute molecule, does not change significantly with the scaling of the dipolar couplings due to spinning at different angles. This result implies that the \&$\#$39;apparent bond angle deviations\&$\#$39; (Deltatheta(a)), previously calculated from thermotropic liquid crystals, arise from a solvent effect and are not an artifact from scaling the anisotropic interactions. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

}, keywords = {phases}, isbn = {0009-2614}, doi = {Doi 10.1016/J.Cplett.2004.10.009}, url = {://WOS:000225324400036}, author = {Park, G. H. J. and Martin, R. W. and Sakellariou, D. and Pines, A. and Shahkhatuni, A. G. and Shahkhatuni, A. A. and Panosyan, H. A.} } @article {353, title = {Variable rotation composite pulses for high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance using inhomogeneous magnetic and radiofrequency fields}, journal = {Chemical Physics Letters}, volume = {363}, year = {2002}, note = {Chem Phys Lett591TPTimes Cited:17Cited References Count:23}, month = {Sep 2}, pages = {25-33}, abstract = {

An approach toward high-resolution NMR spectroscopy on samples located outside the physical confines of a magnet (ex situ NMR), has recently been described [C.A. Meriles, D. Sakellariou, H. Heise, A.J. Moule, A. Pines, Science 293 (2001) 82]. Nutation echoes are generated by a train of z-rotation pulses in the presence of spatially matched static and rf field gradients. These pulses were based on a combination of \&$\#$39;perfect\&$\#$39; pi/2 constant rotation composite pulses and \&$\#$39;imperfect\&$\#$39; ordinary pulses of variable length. Here we introduce a new class of \&$\#$39;self-compensated\&$\#$39; z-rotation composite pulses based only on variable rotation inversion pulses that lead to an rf dependent phase shift. Experiments and simulations show that these new pulses perform well at high B-0 gradients and require less rf power than previous schemes. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

}, keywords = {echoes}, isbn = {0009-2614}, doi = {Doi 10.1016/S0009-2614(02)01116-8}, url = {://WOS:000177896600005}, author = {Sakellariou, D. and Meriles, C. A. and Moule, A. and Pines, A.} } @article {378, title = {Visualization of gas flow and diffusion in porous media}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America}, volume = {97}, year = {2000}, note = {P Natl Acad Sci USA294ZRTimes Cited:29Cited References Count:18}, month = {Mar 14}, pages = {2414-2418}, abstract = {

The transport of gases in porous materials is a crucial component of many important processes in science and technology. In the present work, we demonstrate how magnetic resonance microscopy with continuous flow laser-polarized noble gases makes it possible to \"light up\" and thereby visualize, with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution, the dynamics of gases in samples of silica aerogels and zeolite molecular sieve particles. The \"polarization-weighted\" images of gas transport in aerogel fragments are correlated to the diffusion coefficient of xenon obtained from NMR pulsed-field gradient experiments. The technique provides a unique means of studying the combined effects of flow and diffusion in systems with macroscopic dimensions and microscopic internal pore structure.

}, keywords = {xenon}, isbn = {0027-8424}, doi = {Doi 10.1073/Pnas.050012497}, url = {://WOS:000085941400005}, author = {Kaiser, L. G. and Meersmann, T. and Logan, J. W. and Pines, A.} } @article {480, title = {Variable-Angle 3-Dimensional Exchange Nuclear-Magnetic-Resonance Spectroscopy for the Study of Molecular-Motion in Complex Solids}, journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society}, volume = {115}, year = {1993}, note = {J Am Chem SocLf062Times Cited:14Cited References Count:23}, month = {Jun 2}, pages = {4825-4829}, abstract = {

Although molecular motions are responsible for many of the macroscopic properties observed in solids, especially in polymers, methods for studying these processes in all but the simplest systems are scarce. In the present study we introduce a three-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance experiment for characterizing ultraslow molecular motions in complex solid systems. The technique extracts dynamic information by resolving the two-dimensional exchange distributions that can be observed in spectra of static samples, according to the isotropic chemical shifts of individual molecular sites. These three-dimensional correlations are achieved by processing signals arising from a fast-spinning solid sample using two independent macroscopic axes of rotation as extraction parameters, an approach which becomes practical due to the simple scaling behavior of anisotropic chemical shifts with respect to the axis of sample rotation. The principles involved in this new spectroscopic technique are discussed, and the method is illustrated with an application to the analysis of motions in isotactic polypropylene.

}, keywords = {jumps}, isbn = {0002-7863}, doi = {Doi 10.1021/Ja00064a050}, url = {://WOS:A1993LF06200050}, author = {Frydman, L. and Lee, Y. K. and Emsley, L. and Chingas, G. C. and Pines, A.} } @article {497, title = {Variable-Angle Correlation Spectroscopy in Solid-State Nuclear-Magnetic-Resonance}, journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics}, volume = {97}, year = {1992}, note = {J Chem PhysJr338Times Cited:90Cited References Count:28}, month = {Oct 1}, pages = {4800-4808}, abstract = {

We describe here a new solid-state nuclear-magnetic-resonance (NMR) experiment for correlating anisotropic and isotropic chemical shifts of inequivalent nuclei in powdered samples. Spectra are obtained by processing signals arising from a spinning sample, acquired in independent experiments as a function of the angle between the axis of macroscopic rotation and the external magnetic field. This is in contrast to previously proposed techniques, which were based on sudden mechanical flippings or multiple-pulse sequences. We show that the time evolution of variable-angle-spinning signals is determined by a distribution relating the isotropic frequencies of the spins with their corresponding chemical shift anisotropies. Fourier transformation of these data therefore affords a two-dimensional NMR spectrum, in which line shapes of isotropic and anisotropic interactions are correlated. Theoretical and experimental considerations involved in the extraction of this spectral information are discussed, and the technique is illustrated by an analysis of C-13 NMR anisotropy in glycine, cysteine, and p-anisic acid.

}, keywords = {axis}, isbn = {0021-9606}, doi = {Doi 10.1063/1.463860}, url = {://WOS:A1992JR33800022}, author = {Frydman, L. and Chingas, G. C. and Lee, Y. K. and Grandinetti, P. J. and Eastman, M. A. and Barrall, G. A. and Pines, A.} } @article {664, title = {Viscosity and Temperature-Dependence of the Magnetic Isotope Effect}, journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics}, volume = {73}, year = {1980}, note = {J Chem PhysKx295Times Cited:53Cited References Count:35}, pages = {5493-5499}, isbn = {0021-9606}, doi = {Doi 10.1063/1.440068}, url = {://WOS:A1980KX29500010}, author = {Sterna, L. and Ronis, D. and Wolfe, S. and Pines, A.} } @article {729, title = {Violation of Spin-Temperature Hypothesis}, journal = {Physical Review Letters}, volume = {25}, year = {1970}, note = {Phys Rev LettG8549Times Cited:140Cited References Count:17}, pages = {218-\&}, isbn = {0031-9007}, doi = {Doi 10.1103/Physrevlett.25.218}, url = {://WOS:A1970G854900007}, author = {Rhim, W. K. and Pines, A. and Waugh, J. S.} }