Magnetic resonance imaging of convection in laser-polarized xenon |
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Authors: | Mair R W Tseng C H Wong G P Cory D G Walsworth R L |
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Institution: | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. |
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Abstract: | We demonstrate nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging of the flow and diffusion of laser-polarized xenon (129Xe) gas undergoing convection above evaporating laser-polarized liquid xenon. The large xenon NMR signal provided by the laser-polarization technique allows more rapid imaging than one can achieve with thermally polarized gas-liquid systems, permitting shorter time-scale events such as rapid gas flow and gas-liquid dynamics to be observed. Two-dimensional velocity-encoded imaging shows convective gas flow above the evaporating liquid xenon, and also permits the measurement of enhanced gas diffusion near regions of large velocity variation. |
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