%0 Journal Article %J Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging %D 2008 %T Flow in Porous Metallic Materials: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study %A Xu, S. J. %A Harel, E. %A Michalak, D. J. %A Crawford, C. W. %A Budker, D. %A Pines, A. %K mri %X

Purpose: To visualize flow dynamics of analytes inside porous metallic materials with laser-detected magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).Materials and Methods: We examine the flow of nuclear-polarized water in a porous stainless steel cylinder. Laser-detected MRI utilizes a sensitive optical atomic magnetometer as the detector. Imaging was performed in a remote-detection mode: the encoding was conducted in the Earth's magnetic field, and detection is conducted downstream of the encoding location. Conventional MRI (7T) was also performed for comparison.Results: Laser-detected MRI clearly showed MR images of water flowing through the sample, whereas conventional MRI provided no image.Conclusion: We demonstrated the viability of laser-detected MRI at low-field for studying porous metallic materials, extending MRI techniques to a new group of systems that is normally not accessible to conventional MRI.

%B Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging %V 28 %P 1299-1302 %8 Nov %@ 1053-1807 %G English %U ://WOS:000260566100033 %N 5 %M WOS:000260566100033 %! Flow in Porous Metallic Materials: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study %R Doi 10.1002/Jmri.21532