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Detection of sodium ions in anisotropic environments through spin-lock NMR

✍ Scribed by Ileana Hancu; Johan R.C. van der Maarel; Fernando E. Boada

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
213 KB
Volume
47
Category
Article
ISSN
0740-3194

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Abstract

A new method for selectively detecting sodium ions in anisotropic environments is presented. A spin‐lock (SL) sequence, followed by a coherence transfer pulse, generates rank‐two zero‐quantum coherences, and converts them into observable transverse magnetization. The quadrupolar polarization is only generated when there are residual quadrupolar couplings in the sample, and provided the SL field strength is comparable to these couplings. This filter has proved to be more efficient than a double‐quantum magic‐angle (DQ‐MA) filter in generating observable signal from ions in anisotropic media in both a nasal bovine cartilage sample and a liquid crystalline DNA sample. Finally, the SL filtering technique does not rely on a flip angle effect for the selection of the desired signal component, as does a DQ‐MA filter, and may therefore prove desirable in an imaging experiment, due to its better tolerance to phase and flip angle imperfections. Magn Reson Med 47:68–74, 2002. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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