Magnetic resonance microscopy : instrumentation and applications in engineering, life science and energy research /
edited by Sabina Haber-Pohlmeier, Bernhard Blumich, Luisa Ciobanu.
- 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Preface xi
Part I: Developments in Hardware and Methods 1
1 Microengineering Improves MR Sensitivity 3 Neil MacKinnon, Jan G. Korvink, and Mazin Jouda
2 Ceramic Coils for MR Microscopy 25 Marine A.C. Moussu, Redha Abdeddaim, Stanislav Glybovski, Stefan Enoch, and Luisa Ciobanu
3 Portable Brain Scanner Technology for Use in Emergency Medicine 49 Lawrence L. Wald and Clarissa Z. Cooley
4 Technology for Ultrahigh Field Imaging 75 Kamil Uğurbil
5 Sweep Imaging with Fourier Transformation (SWIFT) 101 Djaudat Idiyatullin and Michael Garwood
6 Methods Based on Solution Flow, Improved Detection, and Hyperpolarization for Enhanced Magnetic Resonance 133 Patrick Berthault and Gaspard Huber Copyrighted Material
7 Advances and Adventures with Mobile NMR 155 Bernhard Blümich, Denis Jaschtschuk, and Christian Rehorn
Part II: Applications in Chemical Engineering 173
8 Ultrafast MR Techniques to Image Multi-phase Flows in Pipes and Reactors: Bubble Burst Hydrodynamics 175 Andrew J. Sederman, Andi Reci, and Lynn F. Gladden
9 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Membrane Filtration Processes 193 Denis Wypysek and Matthias Wessling
10 Whither NMR of Biofilms? 225 Joseph D. Seymour, Gisela Guthausen, and Catherine M. Kirkland
11 MRI of Transport and Flow in Plants and Foods 237 Maria Raquel Serial, Camilla Terenzi, John van Duynhoven, and Henk Van As
Part III: Applications in Life Sciences 263
12 MRI of Single Cells Labeled with Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles 265 Cornelius Faber
13 Imaging Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease Using Magnetic Resonance Microscopy 283 Alexandra Badea, Jacques A. Stout, Robert J. Anderson, Gary P. Cofer, Leo L. Duan, and Joshua T. Vogelstein
14 NMR Imaging of Slow Flows in the Root–Soil Compartment 315 Sabina Haber-Pohlmeier, Petrik Galvosas, Jie Wang, and Andreas Pohlmeier
15 Magnetic Resonance Studies of Water in Wood Materials 337 Bruce J. Balcom and Minghui Zhang
Part IV: Applications in Energy Research 355
16 In Situ Spectroscopic Imaging of Devices for Electrochemical Storage with Focus on the Solid Components 357 Elodie Salager
17 Magnetic Field Map Measurements and Operando NMR/MRI as a Diagnostic Tool for the Battery Condition 383 Stefan Benders and Alexej Jerschow
18 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Sodium-Ion Batteries 407 Claire L. Doswell, Galina E. Pavlovskaya, Thomas Meersmann, and Melanie M. Britton
19 The Fun of Applications – a Perspective 425 Y.-Q. Song
Index 433
"Compared to medical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (MRM) focuses on MRI applied to objects of smaller scale and higher spatial resolution since more than three decades. After the pioneering work by Eccles, Callaghan, Aguayo, Blackband, Johnson, et al. in 1986, MRM quickly spread to, among other fields, chemistry, histology and materials research. Since 1992, the edited book series "Magnetic Resonance Microscopy" has provided an important voice describing the latest developments of spatially resolved magnetic resonance methods and their applications far beyond the scope of medical diagnostics. An excellent introduction to MRM, focusing on the practical aspects of high magnetic fields and on the study of biological systems, was authored in 2017 by Luisa Ciobanu: "Microscopic Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Practical Perspective" (Pan Stanford, Singapore, 2017). Our book complements this recent monograph by showing the use of MRM and related techniques in a much broader area and on a wider scale, which extends from chemical engineering to plant research and battery applications, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of MRM. The book opens with a section on hardware and methodology, covering aspects of micro-engineering, magnet technology, coil performance and hyper-polarization to improve signal-to-noise-ratio, a major bottleneck of MRM. Specific pulse sequences and developments in the field of mobile nuclear magnetic resonance are further topics of this first chapter. The following parts, 2 and 3, review essential processes such as filtration, multi-phase flows and transport, and a wide range of systems from biomarkers via single cells to plants and biofilms. Part 4 focuses on energy research, which is becoming increasingly important due to the globally growing environmental problems. It reports on battery types and their developments and how battery states can be recorded and characterized with MRM. Finally, there is an appeal in the last chapter that theory and applications should not be treated separately, because much can be gained from their complementarity"--
About the Author
Prof. Sabina Haber-Pohlmeier is Principal Investigator at the University of Stuttgart focusing on relaxometry, especially fast field cycling relaxometry, of fluids in porous media, spatially resolved studies in soil-plant systems, investigation of transport processes and combination of MRI with complementary non-invasive tomographic methods such as neutron imaging.
Prof. Bernhard Blümich was Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University and is cofounder and director of Magritek Ltd., a manufacturer of tabletop NMR spectrometers and the NMR-MOUSE. His work aims at understanding the macroscopic properties of polymer and porous materials on a microscopic and molecular scale employing novel NMR methods and instrumentation.
Dr. Luisa Ciobanu is currently Research Director at NeuroSpin, CEA-Saclay and focuses on the development of new techniques for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at high and ultra-high magnetic fields for the understanding of fundamental physical principles underlying biological function.