@article {250, title = {Measurement of Arterial Input Function in Hyperpolarized C-13 Studies}, journal = {Applied Magnetic Resonance}, volume = {43}, year = {2012}, note = {Appl Magn Reson974GTTimes Cited:0Cited References Count:16}, month = {Jul}, pages = {289-297}, abstract = {
Recently, hyperpolarized substrates generated through dynamic nuclear polarization have been introduced to study in vivo metabolism. Injection of hyperpolarized [1-C-13] pyruvate, the most widely used substrate, allows detection of time courses of [1-C-13] pyruvate and its metabolic products, such as [1-C-13] lactate and C-13-bicarbonate, in various organs. However, quantitative metabolic modeling of in vivo data to measure specific metabolic rates remains challenging without measuring the input function. In this study, we demonstrate that the input function of [1-C-13] pyruvate can be measured in vivo in the rat carotid artery using an implantable coil.
}, keywords = {kinetics}, isbn = {0937-9347}, doi = {Doi 10.1007/S00723-012-0348-3}, url = {An application of remotely detected magnetic resonance imaging is demonstrated for the characterization of flow and the detection of fast, small molecule separations within hypercrosslinked polymer monoliths. The hyper-cross-linked monoliths exhibited excellent ruggedness, with a transit time relative standard deviation of less than 2.1\%, even after more than 300 column volumes were pumped through at high pressure and flow. Magnetic resonance imaging enabled high. resolution intensity and velocity-encoded images of mobile phase flow through the monolith. The images confirm that the presence of a polymer monolith within the capillary disrupts the parabolic laminar flow profile that is characteristic of mobile phase flow within an open tube. As a result, the mobile phase and analytes are equally distributed in the radial direction throughout the monolith. Also, in-line monitoring of chromatographic separations of small molecules at high flow rates is shown. The coupling of monolithic chromatography columns and NMR provides both real-time peak detection and chemical shift information for small aromatic molecules. These experiments demonstrate the unique power of magnetic resonance, both direct and remote, in studying chromatographic processes.
}, keywords = {visualization}, isbn = {0003-2700}, doi = {Doi 10.1021/Ac2010108}, url = {Hyperpolarized Xe-129 can be used as a sensor to indirectly detect NMR spectra of heteronuclei that are neither covalently bound nor necessarily in direct contact with the Xe atoms, but coupled through long-range intermolecular dipole-dipole interactions. To reintroduce long-range dipolar couplings the sample symmetry has to be broken. This can be done either by using an asymmetric sample arrangement, or by breaking the symmetry of the spin magnetization with field gradient pulses. Experiments are performed where only a small fraction of the available Xe-129 magnetization is used for each point, so that a single batch of xenon suffices for the point-by-point acquisition of a heteronuclear NMR spectrum. Examples with H-1 as the analyte nucleus show that these methods have the potential to obtain spectra with a resolution that is high enough to determine homonuclear J couplings. The applicability of this technique with remote detection is discussed. Published by Elsevier Inc.
}, keywords = {dynamics}, isbn = {1090-7807}, doi = {Doi 10.1016/J.Jmr.2005.05.013}, url = {We report the use of an atomic magnetometer based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency-modulated light to detect nuclear magnetization of xenon gas. The magnetization of a spin-exchange-polarized xenon sample (1.7 cm(3) at a pressure of 5 bars, natural isotopic abundance, polarization 1\%), prepared remotely to the detection apparatus, is measured with an atomic sensor. An average magnetic field of similar to10 nG induced by the xenon sample on the 10 cm diameter atomic sensor is detected with signal-to-noise ratio similar to10, limited by residual noise in the magnetic environment. The possibility of using modern atomic magnetometers as detectors of nuclear magnetic resonance and in magnetic resonance imaging is discussed. Atomic magnetometers appear to be ideally suited for emerging low-field and remote-detection magnetic resonance applications.
}, keywords = {mri}, isbn = {0031-9007}, doi = {Doi 10.1103/Physrevlett.93.160801}, url = {Additional experimental evidence of rotary resonance effects for multiple-quantum coherence conversion in a spin-5/2 system is presented. Two-dimensional plots of the relative efficiency of MQ excitation and conversion are given as a function of radio frequency (rf) amplitude and pulse width. Data are presented for the excitation of five-quantum coherence (5QC), as well as for 5QC to three-quantum coherence (3QC) conversion, 5QC to 1QC (the central transition coherence) conversion, and 3QC to 1 QC conversion. A two-fold increase in the signal-to-noise ratio is achieved by substituting low amplitude rf pulses in place of hard rf pulses for 5QC excitation and 5QC to 3QC conversion in a mixed multiple-quantum magic angle spinning (MAS) (MMQMAS) experiment. The anisotropic line shape for the low-amplitude rf pulse version of the MMQMAS experiment was observed to be distorted from the MAS line shape. The cause and implications of the distortion are discussed. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).
}, keywords = {solid-state}, isbn = {0926-2040}, doi = {Doi 10.1006/Snmr.2002.0084}, url = {The theoretical approach utilizing bimodal Floquet theory in the quadrupolar/central-transition interaction frame, presented in an earlier article [J. D. Walls, K. H. Lim, and A. Pines, J. Chem. Phys. 116, 79 (2002)], is extended to describe the more complicated spin dynamics of I=5/2 spin systems. Rotary resonance effects occur when the strength of the radio-frequency irradiation, omega(1), matches the sample spinning speed, omega(r), at the conditions omega(1) = 2/3nomega(r) (n integral). At these conditions, conversions of both triple-quantum and five-quantum coherences to central-quantum coherence are observed. Between rotary resonance conditions [ 2n/3omega(r)\<ω(1)\<[2(n+1)]/3ω(r)], five-quantum as well as triple-quantum coherences can be created from equilibrium z-magnetization via a nutation mechanism. In addition, effective transfer between five-quantum and triple-quantum coherences also is observed in between rotary resonance conditions. These effects have been investigated theoretically and verified by both numerical calculations and experimental results. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
}, keywords = {SPECTROSCOPY}, isbn = {0021-9606}, doi = {Doi 10.1063/1.1483256}, url = {Xenon NMR is used with adsorption measurements to infer information about the microstructure of some novel hyper-cross-linked polyarylcarbinols. It is shown that rigidrod connecting units are necessary for microporosity in these systems, as hyper-cross-linked polymers based on flexible structures are found to have conventional surface areas and xenon NMR spectra. A microporous polymer based on rigid triarylcarbinol monomers shows high xenon uptake and a linear chemical shift variation with pressure at room temperature. Spin-lattice relaxation and cross-polarization dynamics are studied at low temperatures. In this regime the xenon has extremely long equilibration times, and the adsorption dynamics are complicated but give important insight into the polymer topology. The data are compared with two possible models of the polymer microstructwre.
}, keywords = {adsorption}, isbn = {0897-4756}, doi = {Doi 10.1021/Cm00055a008}, url = {Al-27 double rotation NMR (DOR) spectroscopy is used to investigate structural changes in the framework of several aluminophosphate molecular sieves upon adsorption of water. The shapes, widths, and positions of the spectral lines yield information on the aluminum environments, adsorption sites, and degree of structural disorder undergone upon water adsorption.
}, keywords = {alpo4-8}, isbn = {1011-372X}, doi = {Doi 10.1007/Bf00770899}, url = {