@article {392, title = {Imaging of laser-polarized solid xenon}, journal = {Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance}, volume = {10}, year = {1998}, note = {Solid State Nucl MagZh559Times Cited:5Cited References Count:16}, month = {Feb}, pages = {247-250}, abstract = {
The enhanced spin polarization produced by optical pumping of gaseous rubidium/xenon samples has made possible a number of recent experiments in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Here we report MRI of laser-polarized xenon in the solid phase at low temperature. Due to the high xenon density in the solid phase and the enhanced spin polarization, it is possible to achieve high intensity and spatial resolution of the image. Signals were observed from xenon films solidified onto the glass container walls and not from an enclosed chili pepper. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.
}, keywords = {gas}, isbn = {0926-2040}, doi = {Doi 10.1016/S0926-2040(97)00078-7}, url = {Because xenon NMR is highly sensitive to the local environment, laser-polarized xenon could be a unique probe of living tissues. Realization of clinical and medical science applications beyond lung airspace imaging requires methods of efficient delivery of laser-polarized xenon to tissues, because of the short spin-lattice relaxation times and relatively low concentrations of xenon attainable in the body. Preliminary results from the application of a polarized xenon injection technique for in vivo Xe-129 NMR/MRI are extrapolated along with a simple model of xenon transit to show that the peak local concentration of polarized xenon delivered to tissues by injection may exceed that delivered by respiration by severalfold.
}, keywords = {humans}, isbn = {0027-8424}, doi = {Doi 10.1073/Pnas.94.26.14725}, url = {