@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 {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 {390, title = {Gas flow MRI using circulating laser-polarized Xe-129}, journal = {Journal of Magnetic Resonance}, volume = {138}, year = {1999}, note = {J Magn Reson196HXTimes Cited:35Cited References Count:15}, month = {May}, pages = {155-159}, abstract = {

We describe an experimental approach that combines multidimensional NMR experiments with a steadily renewed source of laser-polarized Xe-129. Using a continuous flow system to circulate the gas mixture, gas phase NMR signals of laser-polarized Xe-129 can be observed with an enhancement of three to four orders of magnitude compared to the equilibrium Xe-129 NMR signal. Due to the fact that the gas flow recovers the nonequilibrium Xe-129 nuclear spin polarization in 0.2 to 4 s, signal accumulation on the time scale of seconds is feasible, allowing previously inaccessible phase cycling and signal manipulation. Several possible applications of MRI of laser-polarized Xe-129 under continuous flow conditions are presented here. The spin density images of capillary tubes demonstrate the feasibility of imaging under continuous how. Dynamic displacement profiles, measured by a pulsed gradient spin echo experiment, show entry flow properties of the gas passing through a constriction under laminar flow conditions. Further, dynamic displacement profiles of Xe-129, flowing through polyurethane foams with different densities and pore sizes, are presented. (C) 1999 Academic Press.

}, keywords = {xenon}, isbn = {1090-7807}, doi = {Doi 10.1006/Jmre.1998.1675}, url = {://WOS:000080303900021}, author = {Brunner, E. and Haake, M. and Kaiser, L. and Pines, A. and Reimer, J. A.} } @article {416, title = {Geometric dephasing in zero-field magnetic resonance}, journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics}, volume = {106}, year = {1997}, note = {J Chem PhysWh843Times Cited:8Cited References Count:28}, month = {Feb 22}, pages = {3007-3016}, abstract = {

Geometric phases acquired randomly can give rise to coherence dephasing in nuclear spin systems, equivalent to spin relaxation. We calculate the form and extent of this geometric dephasing in a number of model systems involving the motion of Xe-131 nuclei in shaped containers. The dephasing is calculated in two ways: first, using an analytical treatment of the diffusive motion of individual nuclei, and second, using ensemble averaged propagators. The effects of applying additional magnetic fields to these systems are discussed briefly. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.

}, keywords = {xenon}, isbn = {0021-9606}, doi = {Doi 10.1063/1.473046}, url = {://WOS:A1997WH84300003}, author = {Jones, J. A. and Pines, A.} } @article {439, title = {Spin-Polarized Xe-129 Gas Imaging of Materials}, journal = {Journal of Magnetic Resonance Series A}, volume = {115}, year = {1995}, note = {J Magn Reson Ser ARl474Times Cited:49Cited References Count:23}, month = {Jul}, pages = {127-130}, keywords = {xenon}, isbn = {1064-1858}, doi = {Doi 10.1006/Jmra.1995.1157}, url = {://WOS:A1995RL47400017}, author = {Song, Y. Q. and Gaede, H. C. and Pietrass, T. and Barrall, G. A. and Chingas, G. C. and Ayers, M. R. and Pines, A.} }