Cordubensis developments in field-cycling NMR

E. ANOARDO

Conferencia; Magnetic Resonance in a Cordubensis Perspective; 2011

The art of cycling the magnetic field was born at the very early days of NMR [1]. With time, it evolved into quite different fields of applications, mainly fast field cycling (FFC) NMR relaxometry [2] and field-cycling MRI [3,4]. The hardware evolution was an important stimulus for the development of new applications, and vice versa, the particular needs of different research fields and industrial applications demanded new hardware engineering. Such development did not only occur at academic environment, but also in connection to industry-related projects. Within this frame, some recent developments and work in progress will be briefly discussed:  1-     Acoustically stimulated NMR relaxometry [5,6]. 2-     FFC NMR elastometry: an application derived from recent studies in liposomes [7,8]. 3-     Specific hardware development for FFC applications [9,10]. 4-     Advances on the field-cycling MRI local project.  [1]- A. Abragam, Principles of Nuclear Magnetism, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1961). [2]- R. Kimmich and E. Anoardo, Prog. NMR Spectrosc. 44, 257 (2004). [3]- N. I. Matter, G. C. Scott, T. Grafendorfer, A. Macovski and S. M. Conolly, IEEE Trans. Med. Imag. 25, 84 (2006). [4]- D. Lurie, S. Aime, S. Baroni, N. A. Booth, L. M. Broche, C.-H. Choi, G. R. Davies, S. Ismail, D. Ó hÓgáin and K. J. Pine, C. R. Physique 11, 136 (2010). [5]- E. Anoardo and F. Bonetto in Modern Magnetic Resonance, G. A. Webb (Ed.), Part III, pp. 1419, Springer (2006). [6]- E. Anoardo, C. R. Physique 11, 160 (2010). [7]- C. Meledandri, J. Perlo, E. Farrher, D. Brougham and E. Anoardo, J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 15532 (2009). [8]- J. Perlo, C. Meledandri, E. Anoardo and D. Brougham, J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 3444 (2011). [9]- G. Forte, G. Farrher, L. Canali and E. Anoardo, IEEE Trans. Contrl. Syst. Technol. 18, 976 (2010). [10]- E. Anoardo, H. Segnorile, G. Forte, G. Farrher, P. Novisardi, and L. Revello, Patent application (in progress).