Magnetic Resonance Microscopy: Spatially Resolved NMR Techniques and Applications

Just like hospitals use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to examine patients′ bodies with millimeter resolution, scientists want to examine materials non–destructively and non–invasively on the microscopic scale. Spatial resolution down to the micrometer range has been achieved and great efforts are being made to develop magnetic resonance technology further. Characterization of the structure and transport function of materials is important in applications ranging all the way from biomedicine and food science to geophysics and alternative energy.
This handbook and ready reference covers materials science applications as well as microfluidic, biomedical and dental applications and the monitoring of physicochemical processes. It includes the latest in hardware, methodology and applications of spatially resolved magnetic resonance, such as portable imaging and single–sided spectroscopy.
For materials scientists, spectroscopists, chemists, physicists, and medicinal chemists.

Spis treści:
Preface.
Editor′s Biographies.
List of Contributors.
1. Musings on Hardware Advances and New Directions (Eiichi Fukushima).
Part One: Novel Techniques.
2. Multidimensional Earth′s–Field NMR (Meghan E. Halse, Andrew Coy, Robin Dykstra, Craig D. Eccles, Mark W. Hunter and Paul T. Callaghan).
3. Multiple–Echo Magnetic Resonance (Yo–Qiao Song, Eric E. Sigmund and Hyng Joon Cho).
4. Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (laden Barbic).
5. Dynamic Fixed–Point Generation Using Non–Linear Feedback Fields–with Applications IN MR Contrast Enhancement (Jon K. Furuyama, Dennis W. Hwang, Susie Y. Huang, Jamie D. Walls, Hsing–Wei Chang, Lian–Pin Hwang and Yung–Ya Lin ).
6. Shimming Pulses (Louis–Serge Bouchard).
Part Two: Polarization Enhancement.
7. Parahydrogen–Induced Polarization in Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenati ons (Kirill V. Kovtunov and Igor V. Koptyug).
8. Towards Posture–Dependent Human Pulmonary Oxygen Mapping Using Hyperpolarized Helium and an Open–Access MRI System (Ross W. Mair, Leo L. Tsai, Chih–Hao Li, Michael J. Barlow, Rachel N. Scheidegger, Matthew S. Rosen, Samuel Patz and Ronald L. Walsworth).
9. Hyperpolarized 83Kr MRI (Galina E. Pavalovskaya and Thomas Meersmann).
10. Fast Gradient–Assisted 2–D Spectroscopy in Conjunction with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (Rafal Panek, James Leggett, Nikolas S. Andersen, Josef Granwehr, Angel J. Perez Linde and Walter Kockenberger).
11. Dynamic Nuclear Polarization–Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Analysis at X–Band Using Amplified 1H Water Signal (Songi Han, Evan R. McCarney, Brandon D. Armstrong and Mark D. Lingwood).
Part Three: Transport Phenomena.
12. Localized NMR Velocity Measurements in Small Channels (L. Guy Raguin and Luisa Ciobanu).
13. Electro–Osmotic Flow and Dispersion in Microsystems Channel Networks and Porous Glasses: Comparison wit Pressure–Induced Transport and Ionic Currents (Bogdan Buhai, Yujie Li and Rainer Kimmich).
14. MRI of Fluids in Strong Acoustic Fields (Igor V. Mastikhin and Benedict Newling).
15. MRI of Coherent and Incoherent Displacements in Turbulent Flow (Benedict Newling, Zhi Yang, Mark H. Sankey, Mike L. Johns and Lynn F. Gladden).
16. Transport Properties in Small–Scale Reaction Units (Andrea Amar, Lisandro Buljubasich, Bernhard Blumich and Siegfried Stapf).
17. Solid Liquid Particulate Suspensions–Gravitational and viscous Transport (Sarah L. Codd, Stephen A. Altobelli, Joseph D. Seymour, Jennifer r. Brown and Einar O. Fridjonsson).
Part Four: Biological Systems.
18. Low–Field MR Sensors for Fruit Inspection (Rebecca R. Milczarek and Michael J. McCarthy).
19, Microscopic Imaging of Structured Macromolecules in Articular Cartilage (Yang Xia a nd Shaokuan Zheng).
20. MRI of water Transport in the Soil–Plant–Atmosphere Continuum (Henk Van As, Natalia Homan, Frank J. Vergeldt and Carel W. Windt).
21. Noninvasive Assessment of moisture Migration in Food Products by MRI (John P. M. van Duynhoven, Gert–Jan W. Goudappel, Wladyslaw P. Eeglarz, Carel W. Windt, Pedro Ramos Cabrer, Ales Mohoric and Henk Van As).
22. Dynamic Metabolism Studies of Live Bacerial Films (Paul D. Majors and Jeffrey S. McLean).
23. Applications of Permanent–Magnet Compact MRI Systems (Katsumi Kose, Tomoyuki Haishi and Shinya Handa).
Part Five: Materials Science.
24. Magnetic Field Control of Chemical Waves (Malanie Britton and Christiane Timmel).
25. Fluid Distribution and Movement in Engineered Fibrous Substrates by Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (Johannes Leisen and Haskell W. Beckham).
26. Imaging of Water in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane in Fuel Cells (Shohji Tsushima and Shuichiro Hirai).
27. NMR of Liquid Crystals Confined in nano–Scaled Pores (Farida Grinberg).
28. NMR Imaging of Moisture and Ion Transport in Building Materials (Leo Pel and Henk Huinink).
29. Magnetic Resonance Studies of Drop–Freezing Processes (Michael L. Johns, David I. Wilson and Jason P. Hindmarsh).
Part Six: Hardware.
30. High–Performance Shimming with permanent Magnets (Ernesto Danieli, Juan Perlo, Federico Casanova and Bernhard Blumich).
31. Inversion of NMR Relaxation Measurements in Well Logging (Lizhi Xiao, Guangzhi Liao, Ranhong Xie and Xhongdong Wang).
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Sarah Codd is co–director of the Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (MRM) laboratory and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Montana State University. Her research focuses on technique development, spatially resolved studies of gas in ceramics, flow and diffusion studies in porous media, and investigation of fluid dynamics in hydrogels, biofilms, cellular suspensions and polymer electrolyte membranes. Her doctoral studies were at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. She held post–doctoral positions at Massey University, New Zealand, Ulm University, Germany, and New Mexico Resonance, USA, before moving to Montana in 2002.
Joseph Seymour is co–director of the Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (MRM) laboratory and an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Montana State University. His primary area of research interest is in transport imaging using MRM. Prior and future research includes laboratory and field studies of transport phenomena using MRM′s ability to measure both coherent motion, or velocity, and random motion, or diffusion. His doctoral studies were at the University of California at Davis, USA. He held post–doctoral positions at Massey University, New Zealand, Universität Ulm, Germany, and New Mexico Resonance, USA, before moving to Montana in 2001.

Okładka tylna:
Just like hospitals use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to examine patients′ bodies with millimeter resolution, scientists want to examine materials non–destructively and non–invasively on the microscopic scale. Spatial resolution down to the micrometer range has been achieved and great efforts are being made to develop magnetic resonance technology further. Characterization of the structure and transport function of materials is important in applications ranging all the way from biomedicine and food science to geophysics and alternative energy.
This handbook and ready reference covers materials science applications as well as microfluidic, biomedical and dental applications and the monitoring of physicochemical processes. It includes the latest in hardware, methodology and applications of spatially resolved magnetic resonance, such as portable imaging and single–sided spectrosc