Magnetic resonance field, inhomogeneous

The SIN defined by Equation 7.6 for a given NMR resonance is proportional to the square of the nuclear precession frequency (mo, rad/s), the magnitude of the transverse magnetic field (Bi) induced in the RE coil per unit current (/), the number of spins per unit volume (Ns), the sample volume (Vs), and a scaling constant that accounts for magnetic field inhomogeneities. The SIN is inversely proportional to the noise generated in the RE receiver and by the sample (Vnoise) as defined by the Nyquist theorem,... 

Figure 34 shows spectra of TA and SOL from a 24-year-old male volunteer recorded at 1.5 T (a) and 3.0 T (b). Besides the clearly improved SNR, which is elevated by a factor of 1.7 to 1.8 at 3.0 T, distinct differences can be observed for the two magnetic field strengths In both muscles, IMCL and EMCL are clearly better separated at 3.0 T as the methylene resonance of IMCL shows smaller natural linewidths (in ppm). However, EMCL signals remain with a broad lineshape in TA as well as in SOL, since the lineshape is dominated by susceptibility induced static field inhomogeneities. Crs and TMA signals are... 

There are several other sources of line width in nuclear magnetic resonance. An experimentally caused width occurs when the laboratory static magnetic field inhomogeneity exceeds the true line width. In this case the... 

The spin-spin relaxation time can, in principle, be measured from the FID following the 90° pulse (one-pulse experiment Fig. 10a). However, the application of this simple experiment is limited only to very short FIDs, and consequently short T2s, because of the inhomogenities in the laboratory field. The line width in magnetic resonance is proportional to T2, but the observed linewidth,- T, has also a contribution from the magnetic field term ... 

The application of the reference deconvolution technique to overcome the effect of magnetic field inhomogeneity in high-resolution NMR has recently been reviewed by Metz et al.21 In this technique, the observed resonance lineshape from a single resonance line is used to deconvolve the observed lineshapes to produce the Lorentzian lineshapes associated with liquid samples. 

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