Saturation paramagnetic

Mo(V) paramagnetic species is also an argument to exclude an interaction between the Mo site and Fe-S center I. These studies were further complemented by detailed study of the observable splitting and its temperature dependence, EPR saturation, and the effect of differential reduction of the Fe-S centers. A magnetic interaction was also seen in xanthine oxidase, between various Mo(V) EPR species and one of the Fe-S centers. A study on the... 

Figure 2. Plot of relative magnetization, a/Os ns a function of H/T. (a) A paramagnetic system Is characterized by an effective magnetic moment, with a Bohr Magneton number vlO per Ion, and by the absence of hysteresis. Paramagnetic saturation occurs at very high "H/T" == 10 Oe K"l. (b) l.angevln curve for S.P. clusters, (c) Part of a ferromagnetic hysteresis curve.

Subczynski, W. K., J. Widomska, A. Wisniewska, and A. Kusumi. 2007a. Saturation-recovery electron paramagnetic resonance discrimination by oxygen transport (DOT) method for characterizing membrane domains. In Methods in Molecular Biology Lipid Rafts, ed. T. J. McIntosh, Vol. 398, pp. 145-159, Totowa, NJ Humana Press. 

Low temperatures are required to slow down paramagnetic relaxation in order to get sharp EPR spectra. However, when a paramagnet can relax back to the ground state only slowly, then it is easy to saturate the system with microwaves, and this will lead to deformed spectra. In this chapter we consider the two key experimental parameters power (intensity of the microwaves) and temperature (of the sample) in combination with the key system parameter the spin. For a given system of spin S at a temperature T there is a single optimal value of P, which must be determined experimentally. The combined set of P, T, and S determines the complexity and the costs of EPR spectroscopy. 

Thomas, D.D., Dalton, L.R., and Hyde, J.S. 1976. Rotational diffusion studied by passage saturation transfer electron paramagnetic resonance. The Journal of Chemical Physics 65 3006-3024. 

Beside classical MRI, based on the measurement of water abundance in tissues and variation of its relaxation rates, other techniques such as chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) and its improved form using paramagnetic compounds (PARACEST) are currently investigated to improve the potential of MRI diagnosis. 

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