Magnetic resonance microscopy : instrumentation and applications in engineering, life science and energy research / edited by Sabina Haber-Pohlmeier, Bernhard Blumich, Luisa Ciobanu.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.