TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimal control NMR differentiation between fast and slow sodium
AU - Lee, Jae Seung
AU - Regatte, Ravinder R.
AU - Jerschow, Alexej
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge funding from the US National Science Foundation under Grant No. CHE0554400 , and from the National Institutes of Health under Grant No. 5R21AR055724-02 . This research was further supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY05-51164 (Quantum Control Workshop at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics).
PY - 2010/7/19
Y1 - 2010/7/19
N2 - Sodium ions in tissues and organs may experience motion on a variety of timescales, leading to NMR relaxation effects with quadrupolar coupling as the primary mechanism. The various effects that this fluctuating interaction has on spin dynamics can be exploited for distinguishing slow sodium ions from fast ones. Techniques such as triple-quantum filtering have been used for this purpose in the past. In this work we present optimal pulses which significantly improve the selectivity towards slow-tumbling sodium. These pulses can also be modified for robustness against magnetic field inhomogeneities, and could hence also become useful as MRI contrast methods.
AB - Sodium ions in tissues and organs may experience motion on a variety of timescales, leading to NMR relaxation effects with quadrupolar coupling as the primary mechanism. The various effects that this fluctuating interaction has on spin dynamics can be exploited for distinguishing slow sodium ions from fast ones. Techniques such as triple-quantum filtering have been used for this purpose in the past. In this work we present optimal pulses which significantly improve the selectivity towards slow-tumbling sodium. These pulses can also be modified for robustness against magnetic field inhomogeneities, and could hence also become useful as MRI contrast methods.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cplett.2010.06.019
DO - 10.1016/j.cplett.2010.06.019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77955303908
SN - 0009-2614
VL - 494
SP - 331
EP - 336
JO - Chemical Physics Letters
JF - Chemical Physics Letters
IS - 4-6
ER -