“Magic-angle” NMR imaging in solids

1986; Elsevier BV; Volume: 67; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0022-2364(86)90424-5

ISSN

1557-8968

Autores

F. De Luca, B. Maraviglia,

Tópico(s)

Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications

Resumo

The spatial imaging of NMR parameters (1) in solids is technically difficult because of the strong nuclear dipole-dipole interaction. The dipolar interaction actually produces a natural absorption line Atin of several kilohertz that makes it difficult to satisfy the condition yArG, $ Awn necessary to get sufficient spatial resolution Ar. Here, G, is a static linear magnetic gradient and y, as usual, the gyromagnetic ratio. One possible way to overcome this limiting condition for imaging is to reduce the line broadening by multiple-pulse line narrowing sequences (2,3). Another approach proposed the use of multiple-quantum NMR transitions to increase the effective gradient intensity experienced by the spins (4-6). In this paper we propose a new imaging method for solids, which combines line narrowing at the “magic angle” in the rotating frame (7-10) with the full rotating frame NMR imaging technique (1 I). In the frame rotating (RF) at the frequency w around the main static field Bok, parallel to the z axis, the polarized laboratory frame (LF) exciting field c therefore the effective spin Hamiltonian Ze in first-order perturbation theory in this coordinate system is (7, 8, 10)

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