Spin-lattice relaxation magnetic resonance

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The proton spin-lattice relaxation-rate (R,) is a well established, nuclear magnetic resonance (n.m.r.) parameter for structural, configurational, and conformational analysis of organic molecules in solution. " As yet, however, its utility has received little attention in the field of carbohydrate chemistry,... 

To lessen experimental time, the null-point method may be employed by locating the pulse spacing, tnun, for which no magnetization is observed after the 180°-1-90° pulse-sequence. The relaxation rate is then obtained directly by using the relationship / , = 0.69/t n. In this way, a considerable diminution of measuring time is achieved, which is especially desirable in measurements of very low relaxation-rates, or for samples that are not very stable. In addition, estimates of relaxation rates for overlapping resonances can often be achieved. However, as the recovery curves for coupled spin-systems are, more often than not, nonexponential, observation of the null point may violate the initial-slope approximation. Hence, this method is best reserved for preliminary experiments that serve to establish the time scale for spin-lattice relaxation, and for qualitative conclusions. 

The "decrease of the spin temperature means an increase of population difference between the upper and lower energy spin states and consequently an increased sensitivity of the NMR experiment. From Equation (25), the temperature of dilute spins has been lowered by a factor 7x/y1 h, that is, V4 when X = 13C. This means an increased sensitivity of the FID resonance experiment equal to about 4 for the 13C nuclei. Because the X signal is created from the magnetization of dilute nuclei, the repetition time of NMR experiment depends on the spin-lattice relaxation time of the abundant spin species, protons, which is usually much shorter than the spin-lattice relaxation times of the dilute nuclei. This, a further advantage of cross polarization, delay between two scans can be very short, even in the order of few tens of milliseconds. 

Since the magnetic moments are smaller, now we have a smaller susceptibility and therefore much smaller signal, requiring more sensitive detection systems. These are resonance or SQUID (see Section 14.5) techniques. Thermal response time are shorter, since pure metals can be used with good thermal conductivity and fast spin-lattice relaxation. The parameter to be measured is the nuclear susceptibility ... 

Dynamics of Poly(oxyethylene) Melts Comparison of 13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spin-Lattice Relaxation and Dielectric Relaxation as Determined from Simulations and Experiments. 

Chamuleau RA, Creyghton JH, De Nie I, et al. 1988. Is the magnetic resonance imaging proton spin-lattice relaxation time a reliable noninvasive parameter of developing liver fibrosis. Hepatology 8 217-221. 

J. L. Evelhoch, C. S. Ewy, B. A. Siegfried, J. J. H. Ackerman, D. W. Rice and R. W. Briggs, P spin-lattice relaxation times and resonance linewidths of rat tissue in vivo dependence upon the static magnetic field strength. Magn. Reson. Med., 1985, 2,410-417. 

Electron spin resonance (ESR) measures the absorption spectra associated with the energy states produced from the ground state by interaction with the magnetic field. This review deals with the theory of these states, their description by a spin Hamiltonian and the transitions between these states induced by electromagnetic radiation. The dynamics of these transitions (spin-lattice relaxation times, etc.) are not considered. Also omitted are discussions of other methods of measuring spin Hamiltonian parameters such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR), although results obtained by these methods are included in Sec. VI. 

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