Capillary scale NMR flow mapping

Stopped-flow NMR at capillary scale has many advantages over traditional methods of introducing the sample into the probe, particularly when large numbers of samples must be examined. This work describes application of a simple method for direct visualization of a sample inside the flow cell of flow NMR systems to capillary scale analysis. We describe the details of the method and show how it can be used to measure the optimum flow rate for a capillary NMR system and how to determine the optimum sampling efficiency for small samples.     

Spectral unraveling by space-selective Hadamard spectroscopy

Spectral unraveling by space-selective Hadamard spectroscopy (SUSHY) enables recording of NMR spectra of multiple samples loaded in multiple sample tubes in a modified spinner turbine and a regular 5mm liquids NMR probe equipped with a tri-axis pulsed field gradient coil. The individual spectrum from each sample is extracted by adding and subtracting data that are simultaneously obtained from all the tubes based on the principles of spatially resolved Hadamard spectroscopy. The well-known Hadamard spectroscopy has been applied for spatial selection and the method utilizes standard configuration of NMR instrument hardware. The SUSHY method can be easily incorporated in multi-dimensional multi-tube NMR experiments. This method combines the excitation multiplexing, natural advantage of FTNMR, and sample multiplexing and offers high-throughput by reducing the total experimental time by up to a factor of four in a 4-tube mode.     

Real-time imaging of the spatial distribution of rf-heating in NMR samples during broadband decoupling

Continuous radio-frequency (rf) irradiation during decoupling and spin-lock periods in NMR pulse sequences may lead to undesired sample heating. Heat-sensitive samples can suffer damage from the sudden temperature rise which cannot be adequately compensated by the temperature control system. Moreover, as the heating is spatially inhomogeneous, higher temperature increases can arise locally than are indicated by the average increase detected by the temperature controller. In this work we present a technique that allows measurement of a real-time 2D-image of the temperature distribution inside an NMR sample during an experiment involving rf-heating. NMR imaging methods have previously been used to project the temperature distribution inside an NMR sample onto a single spatial axis or to acquire steady-state 2D- temperature distributions. The real-time 2D-temperature profiles obtained with our procedure provide much more detailed data. Our results show, that not only inhomogeneous heating but also inhomogeneous sample cooling contribute to the build-up of temperature gradients across the sample. The technique can be used to visualize rf-heating in order to protect sensitive samples and to experimentally test new coil geometries or to guide probehead design.     

生物固体核磁共振中样品发热的研究进展

近年来,固体核磁共振被广泛应用于膜蛋白、纤维化蛋白等体系的结构和功能研究．在固体核磁共振实验中,快速魔角旋转或高功率射频场照射等实验条件将导致样品发热．生物样品发热能导致严重的后果,例如样品温度的快速升高,信号分辨率、信噪比的降低,发热严重时甚至导致样品的不可逆损坏．近年来,人们对样品发热问题进行了一些研究,发现通过优化样品制备条件或固体核磁共振实验条件,以及改进探头设计等手段,可以在一定程度上减轻样品发热．该文主要综述了生物固体核磁共振研究中导致样品发热的原因和减轻样品发热的方法．     

Motional relativity and industrial NMR sensors

We explore the implications of motional relativity in NMR and show that sample translation can be used to acquire NMR signals without the need for pulsed RF excitation or pulsed magnetic field gradients. Novel single-shot, on-line NMR acquisition protocols for samples being conveyed at high speed are discussed and preliminary results using a low-cost, on-line prototype NMR sensor are presented.     

恶霉灵互变异构现象研究

用GC-MS和变温¹H NMR分析方法证明,在恶霉灵样品中存在互变异构现象,但这种互变异构现象受温度的影响不大,其主要的存在形式为烯醇式,20℃下烯醇式的含量为98.2%.同时也证明了气相色谱用于该样品分析的可靠性.     

高温核磁共振探头

本文设计研制了一种用于动态核磁共振研究的高温探头,它适用于磁铁极间距离为30mm的核磁共振波谱仪,探头中样品处的温度从室温至1300K连续可变,探头既可用于质子(¹H)也可用于其它核(如¹¹B,³¹P,²³Na等),并给出了高温探头的结构、指标及实际应用于测量的例子。     

The virtual NMR spectrometer: a computer program for efficient simulation of NMR experiments involving pulsed field gradients

This paper presents a software program, the Virtual NMR Spectrometer, for computer simulation of multichannel, multidimensional NMR experiments on user-defined spin systems. The program is capable of reproducing most features of the modern NMR experiment, including homo- and heteronuclear pulse sequences, phase cycling, pulsed field gradients, and shaped pulses. Two different approaches are implemented to simulate the effect of pulsed field gradients on coherence selection, an explicit calculation of all coherence transfer pathways, and an effective approximate method using integration over multiple positions in the sample. The applications of the Virtual NMR Spectrometer are illustrated using homonuclear COSY and DQF COSY experiments with gradient selection, heteronuclear HSQC, and TROSY. The program uses an intuitive graphical user interface, which resembles the appearance and operation of a real spectrometer. A translator is used to allow the user to design pulse sequences with the same programming language used in the actual experiment on a real spectrometer. The Virtual NMR Spectrometer is designed as a useful tool for developing new NMR experiments and for tuning and adjusting the experimental setup for existing ones prior to running costly NMR experiments, in order to reduce the setup time on a real spectrometer. It will also be a useful aid for learning the general principles of magnetic resonance and contemporary innovations in NMR pulse sequence design.     

14N NMR作为一种氮含量定量分析的方法及其在检测几种腐殖酸样品中硝酸根离子含量上的应用

本文介绍了氮 1 4核磁共振技术作为一种氮含量定量分析的方法 ,并应用该技术检测了几种腐殖酸样品中硝酸根离子的含量 .结果表明 ,液体氮 1 4核磁共振技术具有较高的灵敏度 ,其定量检测下限可达毫摩尔级 (mmol/L) ,而且操作方便 ,对样品不具损伤性 ,还可以对同一样品中几种小分子氮化物同时进行定量检测 ,是一种较好的氮含量分析方法     

High-resolution NMR with resistive and hybrid magnets: deconvolution using a field-fluctuation signal

A method for compensating effect of field fluctuation is examined to attain high-resolution NMR spectra with resistive and hybrid magnets. In this method, time dependence of electromotive force induced for a pickup coil attached near a sample is measured synchronously with acquisition of NMR. Observed voltage across the pickup coil is converted to field fluctuation data, which is used to deconvolute NMR signals. The feasibility of the method is studied by (79)Br MAS NMR of KBr under a 30T magnetic field of a hybrid magnet. Twenty single-scan NMR signals were accumulated after the manipulation, resulting in a high-resolution NMR spectrum.     

NMR方法在煤炭分析中的应用进展

简要介绍了核磁共振（NMR）方法在煤炭组成及热解过程分析中的应用. 目前用于煤炭分析的NMR方法主要包括固体NMR和液体NMR. 从检测手段来看,以¹³C NMR和¹H NMR方法较多,¹⁵N NMR, ¹⁹F NMR和³¹P NMR也在煤炭的分析中发挥了重要作用. 其中用于区分和选择性检测不同官能团的NMR谱编辑方法的发展, 进一步推进了NMR在煤炭化工中的应用.     

固态样品中扩散的核磁共振测量

用脉冲梯度切核磁共振测量固态样品中的扩散遇到很多困难,对于一个不用内锁的电磁体系统,观测到脉冲场梯度过后涡流造成样品处的磁场强度的强烈振荡.提出了一个用该系统测量凝胶聚合物中锂离子扩散可获得较好结果的脉冲序列.     

Determination of moisture fraction in wood by mobile NMR device

A mobile NMR probe has been used as a non-destructive and non-invasive tool for water content analysis on wood samples. The porosity index, express as the fraction of the sensitivity volume of the probe occupied by water, is here proposed as an alternative to the moisture content index, namely the amount of water mass with respect to the mass of dried sample. In principle the method can be applied to any kind of porous media that has not detectable proton signal from the rigid matrix as, for instance, in building materials. In wood, where proton signal can be detected also from cellulose and others macromolecular components, some considerations and artifices are here proposed for eliminating this contribution. The method has allowed performing moisture volume fraction analysis on wood samples characterized by different wood species, cutting and moisture contents. The NMR data of moisture detection as volume fraction have successfully been compared with those obtained by the gravimetric method.     

Radiation damping in microcoil NMR probes

Radiation damping arises from the field induced in the receiver coil by large bulk magnetization and tends to selectively drive this magnetization back to equilibrium much faster than relaxation processes. The demand for increased sensitivity in mass-limited samples has led to the development of microcoil NMR probes that are capable of obtaining high quality NMR spectra with small sample volumes (nL-microL). Microcoil probes are optimized to increase sensitivity by increasing either the sample-to-coil ratio (filling factor) of the probe or quality factor of the detection coil. Though radiation damping effects have been studied in standard NMR probes, these effects have not been measured in the microcoil probes. Here a systematic evaluation of radiation damping effects in a microcoil NMR probe is presented and the results are compared with similar measurements in conventional large volume samples. These results show that radiation-damping effects in microcoil probe is much more pronounced than in 5 mm probes, and that it is critically important to optimize NMR experiments to minimize these effects. As microcoil probes provide better control of the bulk magnetization, with good RF and B0 inhomogeneity, in addition to negligible dipolar field effects due to nearly spherical sample volumes, these probes can be used exclusively to study the complex behavior of radiation damping.     

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.     

Precision and sensitivity optimization of quantitative measurements in solid state NMR

This work presents a methodology for optimizing the precision, accuracy and sensitivity of quantitative solid state NMR measurements based on the external reference method. It is shown that the sample must be exclusively located within and completely span the coil region where the NMR response is directly proportional to the sample amount. We describe two methods to determine this "quantitative" coil volume, based on whether the probe is equipped or not with a gradient coil. In addition, to improve the sensitivity and the accuracy, an optimum rotor packing design is described, which allows the sample volume of the rotor to be matched to the quantitative coil volume. Experiments conducted on adamantane and NaCl, which are representative of a soft and hard material, respectively, show that one order of magnitude increase in experimental precision can be achieved with this methodology. Interestingly, the precision can be further improved by using the ERETIC method in order to compensate for most instrumental instabilities.     

癌变与正常直肠组织的核磁共振氢谱差异的研究

核磁共振(NMR)波谱法是一种表征分子结构、组成变化的有效手段,能够得到生物组织中的核酸、蛋白质、脂类和糖类等生物大分子的含量、分子的空间排列和结构特征等信息,可以从分子水平上研究肿瘤与对照组织之间的差别,更深入地揭示肿瘤的发生、发展中产生的各种分子水平变化。文章对9例直肠癌组织及癌旁正常组织进行了核磁共振氢谱的测定。结果表明,直肠正常和癌变组织的核磁共振氢谱存在显著的差异,这可以通过对谱图特征峰区域积分面积相对比值的差别看出来。直肠正常组织核磁共振氢谱中A0.9/A3.0,A1.3/A3.0,A2.0/A3.0,A1.3/A0.9及A4.1/A3.0值较相应的癌组织偏大,直肠癌组织核磁共振氢谱中A3.2/A3.0值较相应正常直肠组织偏大。通过这些差异核磁共振氢谱技术有可能发展成为早期诊断直肠癌组织的一种方法。     

水化磷脂层中蛋白质和多肽的高分辨固体核磁共振波谱学

有序样品的固体核磁共振(NMR)已快速发展成测定蛋白质和多肽在“仿真”水化磷脂层中高分辨结构的重要谱学方法. 由于与膜相连的蛋白质和多肽的结构、动力学和功能往往都和其周边自然环境密切相关,因此人们把蛋白质和多肽有序排列于水化磷脂层中进行固体NMR测量, 从而获得与取向相关的各向异性自旋相互作用. 这些取向约束可作为结构参数重构蛋白质在水化磷脂层中的高分辨三维结构. 近十年来在样品制备,NMR探头和实验方法方面的显著发展,极大地促进了有序样品的固体NMR的发展,并使之成为测定与膜相连的蛋白质和多肽结构的有效方法. 该综述介绍有序样品的固体NMR谱学方法,并总结此领域里的最新研究进展.     

四维NMR谱

尽管３ＤＮＭＲ谱的分辨率有所提高，但解释较大的三维异核ＮＭＲ谱时，仍存在含糊性。因此，人们希望通过增加维数进一步提高分辨率，在最近几年中出现了４ＤＮＭＲ谱，４ＤＮＭＲ谱常常是说明２ＤＮＭＲ谱的方法，４ＤＮＭＲ实验可简单地看作是由三个２ＤＮＭＲ实验所组成，新的４ＤＮＭＲ技术仍在不断地发展，已有许多将４ＤＮＭＲ谱应用于蛋白质及核酸研究的报道。     

Using heat to control the sample spinning speed in MAS NMR

A new approach using temperature to control the spinning speed of a sample rotor in magic-angle spinning NMR is presented. Instead of an electro-mechanical valve that regulates the flow of drive gas to control the spinning speed in traditional MAS NMR systems, we use a small heater wire located directly in the stator. The sample spinning speed is controlled very accurately with a surprisingly low heating power of 1 W. Results on a benchtop unit demonstrate the capability of the system.