Heteronuclear intermolecular single-quantum coherences in liquid nuclear magnetic resonance

This paper analyses the heteronuclear Cosy Revamped by Asymmetric Z-gradient Echo Detection pulse sequence. General theoretical expressions of the pulse sequence with arbitrary flip angles were derived by using dipolar field treatment and signals originating from heteronuclear intermolecular single-quantum coherences （iSQCs） in highly-polarized two spin-1/2 systems were mainly discussed in order to find the optimal flip angles. The results show that signals from heteronuclear iSQCs decay slower than those from intermolecular double-quantum coherences or intermolecular zero-quantum coherences. Magical angle experiments validate that the signals are from heteronuclear iSQCs and insensitive to the imperfection of radio-frequency flip angles. All experimental observations are in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions. The quantum-mechanical treatment leads to similar predictions to the dipolar field treatment.     

Magnetic resonance microscopic imaging based on high-order intermolecular multiple-quantum coherences

Most imaging studies using intermolecular multiple-quantum coherences (iMQCs) have focused on the two-spin dipolar interactions--zero and double quantum coherences. Here, we report the results of various experimental studies to assess the feasibility of magnetic resonance microscopy with high-order iMQCs in model systems at 7 and 14 T. Experimental results demonstrated that the iMQC microscopic images with high coherence orders are readily observable at high field and have unique contrast depending on the sample microstructure and coherence order.     

Dynamics of Spin I=3/2 under Spin-Locking Conditions in an Ordered Environment

We have derived approximate analytic solutions to the master equation describing the evolution of the spin I=3/2 density operator in the presence of a radio-frequency (RF) field and both static and fluctuating quadrupolar interactions. Spectra resulting from Fourier transformation of the evolutions of the on-resonance spin-locked magnetization into the various coherences display two satellite pairs and, in some cases, a central line. The central line is generally trimodal, consisting of a narrow component related to a slowly relaxing mode and two broad components pertaining to two faster relaxing modes. The rates of the fast modes are sensitive to slow molecular motion. Neither the amplitude nor the width of the narrow component is affected by the magnitude of the static coupling, whereas the corresponding features of the broad components depend in a rather complicated manner on the spin-lock field strength and static quadrupolar interaction. Under certain experimental conditions, the dependencies of the amplitudes on the dynamics are seen to vanish and the relaxation rates reduce to relatively simple expressions. One of the promising emerging features is the fact that the evolutions into the selectively detected quadrupolar spin polarization order and the rank-two double-quantum coherence do not exhibit a slowly relaxing mode and are particularly sensitive to slow molecular motion. Furthermore, these coherences can only be excited in the presence of a static coupling and this makes it possible to discern nuclei in anisotropic from those in isotropic environment. The feasibility of the spin-lock pulse sequences with limited RF power and a nonvanishing average electric field gradient has been demonstrated through experiments on sodium in a dense lyotropic DNA liquid crystal.     

The theoretic design of NMR pulses program of arbitrary N-qubit Grover’s algorithm and the NMR experiment proof

Grover’s quantum searching algorithm is most widely studied in the current quantum computation research, and has been implemented experimentally by NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) technique. In this article, we design arbitrary N-qubit NMR pulses program of Grover’s algorithm based on the multiple-quantum operator algebra theory and demonstrate 2-qubit pulses program experimentally. The result also proves the validity of the multiple-quantum operator algebra theory     

去羧氯雷他定的波谱学数据与结构确证

对去羧氯雷他定的红外（IR）、质谱（MS）、氢-氢相关谱(^1H-HCOSY)、碳谱（BB、DEPT-90、DEPT-135）、碳氢相关谱（HMQC）、碳氢远程相关谱（HMBC）解析并进行了报道。对所有的^1HNMR、^13CNMR谱的信号进行了归属，同时讨论了质谱的主要碎片离子的可能的裂解方式和红外特征吸收峰所对应的官能团的振动形式。     

二维核磁共振定域谱及其在活体中的应用

核磁共振定域谱(MRS)是获得活体生化定量信息和诊断信息的无损检测技术,是核磁共振成像强有力的补充技术,可为临床诊断和疾病预测提供重要的信息. 然而,活体1D ¹H MRS通常存在代谢物谱峰拥挤、分辨率较低和归属难等问题. 引入2D MRS可在较大程度上解决¹H MRS谱峰重叠和谱峰归属难的问题. 该文简述和分析了几种典型的2D MRS新方法及其优缺点,并讨论了它们在脑部、肌肉、乳腺、前列腺等活体组织中的应用. 虽然2D MRS存在着实验时间较长的局限,但最新研究表明其具有一些独特的优势及较好的发展前景.     

Effects of residual single-quantum coherences in intermolecular multiple-quantum coherence studies

Intermolecular multiple-quantum coherences (iMQCs) have been reported to offer a sensitivity to sample structure at a specific user-defined length scale down to the order of 10 microm. When assessing this novel contrast mechanism in controlled phantom experiments, we have observed three different mechanisms whereby residual single-quantum coherences (SQCs) arising from intense high spatial frequencies, stimulated echoes and strong spatially encoding gradients can produce significant changes in signal contrast at particular length scales. These changes which only appear when components arising from SQCs and iMQCs are both present in the detected signal, are similar to changes previously attributed to iMQCs alone. We demonstrate each mechanism by which these residual SQCs arise and describe methods for their suppression.     

Reconstruction of porous material geometry by stochastic optimization based on bulk NMR measurements of the dipolar field

The dependence of the bulk signal intensity from a CRAZED NMR pulse sequence on magnetic field gradient strength and direction as a method to probe the geometry of porous materials is investigated. In this article, we report on the reconstruction of three-dimensional media consisting of a void phase and an NMR-observable liquid phase using the bulk intensity of the distant dipolar field. The correlation gradient strength and direction provide the spatial encoding of the material geometry. An integral equation for the total signal intensity is then solved numerically by a simulated annealing algorithm to recover the indicator function of the fluid phase. Results show that cylindrical and spherical structures smaller than the volume contributing to the NMR signal can be resolved using three values of the correlation distance and three orthogonal gradient directions. This is done by minimizing a cost function which measures the distance between the bulk signal dependence on gradient parameters for the simulated configuration and the signal dependence for the target configuration. The algorithm can reconstruct and differentiate their spherical and cylindrical phase-inverted equivalents. It can also differentiate horizontal from vertical cylinders, demonstrating the potential for assessing structural anisotropy and other coarse geometric quantifiers in a porous material.     

Simultaneous acquisition of multiple orders of intermolecular multiple-quantum coherence images

Recent studies have demonstrated the ability to detect images based on intermolecular multiple-quantum coherences (iMQCs) that correspond to flipping of two or more separated spins simultaneously, as opposed to conventional magnetic resonance where only one spin is flipped at a time. Until now, iMQC imaging has only acquired one coherence signal per pulse sequence. Here we report a new sequence that successfully detects five orders of coherence (2, 1, 0, −1, and −2-quantum coherence images) in one pulse sequence, with each signal having its full intensity. The simultaneous acquisition highlights substantial contrast differences between conventional and iMQC images, and between the different types of iMQC images.