Multinuclear imaging

Multinuclear imaging techniques are being actively developed in a number of laboratories but there are as yet few reported applications to foods. Papers discussing the principles of imaging with deuterium,194 fluorine,197 carbon-13198 and sodium148,199 have appeared. 

Magnetic resonance imaging, or microtomography by multinuclear magnetic resonance, is another new development that is even more exciting because it provides three-dimensional mapping of the abundance of a variety of atoms. Compositional aspects of microstructme can thereby be resolved. However, the resolution... 

The application of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in these studies provides the additional advantage that characterization can be carried out in a non-invasive manner. This is also illustrated in Figure 1. After impregnation, the extrudate is simply placed into the RF-coil of the spectrometer. A multinuclear MRI technique allows for the detection of the H, C, and Pt... 

R. Pires, T.G. Nunes, I. Abrahams, G.E. Hawkes, C.M. Morals, C. Fernandez, Stray-field imaging and multinuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies on the setting of a commercial glass-ionomer cement, J. Mater. Sci. Mater. Med. 15 (2004) 201-208. 

Ilott, A. J., N. M. Trease, C. P. Grey, and A. Jerschow. 2014. Multinuclear in situ magnetic resonance imaging of electrochemical double-layer capacitors. Nature Communications 5 4536. 

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