基于FPGA的低场核磁共振谱仪脉冲编程器设计与实现

脉冲编程器在核磁共振(NMR) 谱仪中非常重要,具有产生脉冲序列所需的射频脉冲,控制回波信号的同步接收等功能. 基于FPGA的同步性能和时序控制功能,设计了低场NMR谱仪的脉冲编程器,可产生任意脉冲序列,实现脉冲频率、相位、幅度的灵活调节. 利用设计的脉冲编程器在0.540 Tesla均匀磁场下进行了CuSO₄溶液的T₁和T₂测量,得到高信噪比的NMR回波串.     

低场核磁共振仪器振铃抑制新方法及其电路实现

加快天线残余能量释放以减弱天线振铃信号有利于缩短低场核磁共振仪器的回波间隔（TE）,从而提高快弛豫组分的测量分辨率和信噪比（SNR）．而天线Q值对能量的发射效率和泄放速度起着相反的作用．为此,我们首先设计了一种新型Q转换电路,在保证发射效率的同时,可以大大缩短能量泄放时间．在此基础上,应用了一种优化的脉冲序列以弥补传统相位交替对脉冲序列（PAPs）不能消除90°脉冲振铃的缺陷,通过相位循环的方法进一步提高了信噪比．最后,在2 MHz岩心分析仪上测试了新型Q转换电路,当天线Q值降为发射期间的约1/5时,天线恢复时间由280.0 μs降为18.2 μs;而且,使用新型Q转换电路和优化的脉冲序列后,TE=60 μs时,可以有效获得快弛豫组分的T₂信号．     

基于FPGA的核磁共振测井仪控制逻辑设计

核磁共振（NMR）测井仪以CPMG脉冲序列为测量基础,按照CPMG脉冲序列的时序要求完成大功率射频脉冲的发射和微弱回波信号的接收, 在脉冲发射完成后快速泄放天线中储存的能量. 该文介绍一种基于现场可编程门阵列(FPGA)的NMR测井仪控制逻辑和典型脉冲序列,详细说明在CPMG脉冲序列下FPGA的工作时序和流程;讨论NMR测井仪发射电路、Q-转换电路和隔离电路的控制原理和时序要求,给出各电路的控制逻辑仿真结果;最后,利用所设计的控制逻辑和自制NMR测井仪探头,在实验室条件下对水溶液进行了测量,得到满意的结果.     

脉冲回波声成像系统斑纹噪声的一种消减方法

现行脉冲回波声成像系统,由于分辨元内各背向散射波随机相位叠加产生图像斑纹噪声掩盖了图象灰度级间的细微差别,因而降低了图象的分辨率。本文提出一种对接收信号进行处理的DWS方法,它可在保存有用信息的基础上减弱斑纹噪声,并能有效地改善系统的轴向分辨率。     

泵浦激光器驰豫振荡噪声对光纤激光水听器的影响

对采用相位生成载波解调的光纤激光水听器系统中3kHz附近频域内固有噪声的产生机理进行了理论推导,并设计实验进行验证.首先测量得到泵浦激光器的驰豫振荡频率峰值,随后以400 Hz为间隔逐渐降低相位生成载波信号频率,观察固有噪声峰值的移动方向和大小.实验结果表明,随着载波信号频率的降低,固有噪声峰也向低频方向移动,移动间隔同样为400 Hz.可知相位生成载波解调算法中高频载波调制信号与泵浦激光器的驰豫振荡频率叠加是形成探测频谱固有噪声的主要原因.通过降低高频载波调制信号频率的方法对驰豫振荡噪声进行抑制,消除了探测频谱中的固有噪声峰,得到了较为平坦的本底噪声谱.     

基于激光拍频高准确度相位式测距方法

介绍一种基于相位式激光测距的高动态、高准确度测距系统.系统引入光频调制技术实现激光拍频产生高频调制信号并完成信号的高速变测尺调制.在对回波信号进行鉴相时,为降低鉴相偏差采用无窗全相位谱分析并实现对测量信号的相位计算.计算表明,该方法可以有效抑制频谱泄露,减小噪声对测量结果的影响,提高鉴相准确度.实验表明该测距系统可以有效地解决相位法测距中存在的抗干扰能力差、距离模糊较难抑制等问题,调制信号频率为100 MHz、信噪比为30dB时测距准确度优于0.5mm.     

相位补偿算法对提高太赫兹雷达距离像分辨率的研究

介绍了0.2 THz频率步进雷达系统以及获得一维距离像的方法,并利用0.2 THz雷达对角反射器进行距离像分辨率实验,分析了频率步进信号相位不一致对一维距离像以及分辨率的影响,提出了回波相位补偿的方法.经过相位补偿后,目标距离像分辨率和信噪比都显著提高,分辨率达到了厘米量级.仿真和实验结果表明,宽带太赫兹频率步进雷达经过相位补偿,可以对目标进行高分辨率成像,从而为太赫兹雷达二维和三维成像奠定了基础.     

互相关自适应加权的医学超声成像算法研究

根据超声成像系统的超声回波信号互相关性,提出互相关自适应加权超声成像算法.该算法根据散射点回波信号之间的空间相关性设置加权系数,对不同位置的散射点进行自适应加权成像,从而降低了成像系统的旁瓣,抑制了相关性较差的噪声.通过Field II仿真的点目标和吸声斑目标处理结果表明该方法成像的横向和纵向分辨率高,成像速度快.相对于延时叠加(DAS)算法,该算法对散射点成像可提高对比度16 dB,对于吸声斑成像可提高对比度0.85 dB.最后采用完备数据集进行实验,结果表明该算法成像分辨率优于DAS算法,对比度提高了17 dB.     

基于数字调制技术的核磁共振射频脉冲发生器

在核磁共振（NMR）领域,射频脉冲信号的质量、形状对NMR性能及应用有着重要影响.本文基于现场可编程门阵列（FPGA）和直接数字频率合成（DDS）芯片AD9910设计了一种硬件结构更为简单的NMR射频脉冲发生器,实现了射频脉冲各项参数的数字化调制.其频率、相位、振幅的控制精度分别达到了32位、16位和14位,脉冲调制的时间精度为0.01 μs,可灵活生成持续时间不小于0.1 μs、载波频率不高于400 MHz的各类软脉冲和硬脉冲.同时,针对脉冲序列的特点建立了"脉冲+延时"的基础模型,提出了一种通用性更强的列表式脉冲序列控制方案,精简了对上级控制单元的控制需求.此外,对射频脉冲信号的频谱特性进行了理论分析,并采用Hanning窗对软脉冲的包络波形进行了优化处理,仿真和实验结果表明,Hanning窗可以有效抑制软脉冲的频谱泄漏问题.     

2D NMR技术在石油测井中的应用

近几年,2D NMR技术得到迅速发展,特别是在核磁共振测井领域. 该文将主要介绍2D NMR技术的脉冲序列、弛豫原理以及2D NMR技术在石油测井中应用. 2D NMR技术是在梯度场的作用下,利用一系列回波时间间隔不同的CPMG脉冲进行测量,利用二维的数学反演得到2D NMR. 2D NMR技术可以直接测量自扩散系数、弛豫时间、原油粘度、含油饱和度、可动水饱和度、孔隙度、渗透率等地层流体性质和岩石物性参数. 从2D NMR谱上,可以直观的区分油、气、水,判断储层润湿性,确定内部磁场梯度等. 2D NMR技术为识别流体类型提供了新方法.     

Phase Correction-Adaptive Line Enhancement for Noise Reduction of Low-Field NMR

The amplitude of low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is weak, and the echo is buried in the noise. The reduction of noise is critical to accurately extract echo amplitude. Phase correction-adaptive line enhancement (PC-ALE) is proposed to noise suppression based on the principle of ALE and NMR spin-echo characteristics. The echo amplitude is calculated after two-stage processes; phase shift from time-delay and filter tap would be compensated effectively in frequency domain. Simulation and experiments show that PC-ALE has prominent performance on noise suppression, envelope recovery, as well as the correction of the phase shift. The amplitude from the method of sample average nearby the middle of the echo is more accurate than the maximum peak when the PC-ALE is applied to noise suppression of spin-echo.     

Determination of quadrupole parameters with a composite pulse for spurious signal suppression

Spurious signals such as the piezoelectric signal from a ferroelectric crystal or the ringing signal from the NMR probe head tuned for low gyromagnetic ratio nuclei are often observed in pulsed NMR. Both signals are cancelled using the Hahn echo sequence with appropriate phase cyclings. The present paper applies a composite-pulse sequence to cancel the ringing signal. The main advantage of this sequence over the Hahn echo sequence is in the simplicity of optimizing the line intensity: the optimization of only one pulse duration for this sequence but of two pulse durations and the interpulse delay for the Hahn echo sequence. We are interested in half-integer quadrupole spins (I = 3/2, 5/2, 7/2, and 9/2), which means that we must consider the first-order quadrupole interaction during the pulses. For simplicity, we deal mainly with spin I = 3/2 nuclei. Since the central-line intensity depends on the ratio of the quadrupole coupling constant (QCC) to the amplitude of the RF pulse, we can determine the QCC from a featureless lineshape by fitting the variation of the experimental central-line intensity for increasing pulse duration with theoretical results. Contrary to the one-pulse sequence where the central-line intensity is proportional to the pulse duration if the latter is short, there is no such condition with the composite-pulse sequence. In other words, this sequence does not allow us to quantify the relative spin populations in powders. The size of the sample must be much smaller than that of the RF coil in order for the RF magnetic field to become homogeneous for the sample. We used (87)Rb (I = 3/2) in an aqueous solution of RbCl and in RbNb2O5F powder, (131)Xe (I = 3/2) of xenon gas physisorbed in Na-Y zeolite, and (23)Na (I = 3/2) in two well-known powders (NaNO3 and NaNO2) to support our theoretical result.     

适用于探地雷达应用的低振铃单周期脉冲发生器

设计了一种新型的适用于道路检测探地雷达的单周期脉冲发生器。该脉冲发生器包含驱动电路、阶跃恢复二极管(SRD)脉冲形成电路和脉冲整形电路三部分。驱动电路可以使TTL形式的触发脉冲变为电流更大的快前沿脉冲,用来形成给后级电路的驱动脉冲;SRD脉冲产生电路选取渡越时间较小的阶跃恢复二极管结构,通过对前级电路产生的驱动脉冲整形得到负极性高斯脉冲,然后利用微带短路线、肖特基二极管和电容并联实现生成单周期脉冲和振铃抑制的功能,提高超宽带天线辐射的效率以及测量信噪比。测量结果表明,在1 MHz脉冲重复频率的情况下,峰峰值最大为23 V,脉冲半高宽为138 ps,振铃水平为1.25%,而当脉冲重复频率提高到5 MHz,该脉冲发生器产生脉冲波形幅度和带宽基本没有太大变化。这些特征说明,该脉冲发生器具有很高的频率稳定性,且在高分辨率探测应用情景中将会有很好的表现。     

The technique of coherent echo processing in the approximation of a small number of point scatterers

In this paper, we aim at studying the structure of individual samples of coherent echo signals and determining signal features that permit one to detect coherent backscatter and also improve the methods of signal processing. We offer a model of the received signal in the form of a square pulse with duration of the order of the sounding pulse length and filled with a sinusoidal signal of arbitrary frequency. It is shown that this model is quite effective to interpret coherent echo signals in some cases. There are two ways of practical use of the model. One is a technique which singles out the sounding sessions in which strong coherent echo signals are distinguished against the background of other signals received by the Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar. Another is a technique of the spatial resolution improvement.     

Constant time steady gradient NMR diffusometry using the secondary stimulated echo

A pulse sequence producing a second stimulated echo is suggested for the compensation of relaxation and residual dipolar interaction effects in steady gradient spin echo diffusometry. Steady field gradients of considerable strength exist in the fringe field of NMR magnets, for instance. While the absolute echo time of the second stimulated echo is kept constant throughout the experiment, the interval between the first two radiofrequency pulses is augmented leading to a modulation of the amplitude of that second stimulated echo by self-diffusion only. The unique feature of this technique is that it is of a single-scan/single-echo-signal nature. That is, no reference signals neither of the same pulse sequence nor of separate experiments are needed. The new method was tested with poly(ethylene oxide) melts and proved to provide reliable data for (time dependent) self-diffusion coefficients down to the physical limit (D approximately 10(-15)m(2)/s) when flip-flop spin diffusion starts to become effective.     

NMR angiography with enhanced quasi-half-echo scanning

Flow dephasing effects in NMR images can be significantly reduced by the use of gradient quasi-half-echo signals. They can also be reduced by moment-nulling techniques. In this paper, an efficient imaging pulse sequence, the flow-insensitive enhanced quasi-half-echo method is developed in which these two techniques are combined. This pulse sequence is used to reduce dephasing effects in images acquired to enhance blood vessels in gradient echo subtraction angiography. Both phase corrected and uncorrected quasi-half-echo reconstruction techniques are used to determine the effect on image resolution and vessel enhancement.     

Comparative study of motions in dimethylsulfone by noise excitation and solid echo spectroscopy

2H NMR spectra of dimethylsulfone were measured with noise excitation and solid echo NMR spectroscopy in the temperature range from 125 to 355 K. Besides the known fact that broad NMR spectra can be measured with both methods, in comparable times it is shown that for noise excitation, the signal loss is negligible compared to echo spectroscopy in the regime when the correlation times of the motions are of the order of magnitude of the echo pulse spacing. For simulating the dynamic NMR spectra acquired with noise excitation, only the motional process must be taken into account and relaxation can be neglected. Furthermore, the problem of restricted acquisition bandwidth in noise NMR spectroscopy is discussed.     

Observation of a new coherent transient in NMR — Two-pulse nutational stimulated echo in the angular distribution of gamma-radiation from oriented nuclei

A new coherent transient in NMR, the two-pulse nutational stimulated echo is reported for the ferromagnetic system⁵⁰CoFe, observed by monitoring the nuclear spin dynamics as a function of the second pulse duration via anisotropic gamma quanta from thermally oriented radioactive nuclei,⁶⁰Co. The mechanism of echo formation under strong Larmor inhomogeneous broadening and the secondary but important role of inhomogeneity associated with the rf amplitude (Rabi freqeuncy) due to skin-effect are investigated via the method of concatenation of perturbation factors in the statistical tensor formalism. For those experiments performed on time scales short compared with irreversible relaxation the theoretical predictions and subsequent experimental time-domain signals are in excellent accord. Remarkable constancy of amplitude of the new gamma-detected two-pulse echo with increase of interpulse time interval is observed, the longitudinal relaxation being manifest in the off-echo signals. Comparisons are made with NMRON four-pulse stimulated off-echo decay (analogous with conventional NMR three pulse stimulated echo) which is also sensitive to longitudinal relaxation, and with three-pulse on-echo decay (analogous with conventional NMR two-pulse Hahn echo) which measures transverse relaxation.     

An experimental study of the fluctuations of acoustic signals reflected from ships

Results of an experimental study of amplitude fluctuations in echo signals received from ships and their wakes are presented for the cases of vertical and horizontal sounding in a wide range of high sonic and ultrasonic frequencies. Dependences of the amplitude variation coefficients of echo signals on the speed of ship motion, the sounding frequency, the duration of sounding pulses, and the height of wind waves on the sea surface are analyzed. The probability characteristics of echo signals reflected from ship hulls and from wakes at different depths are discussed.