2003/11/07 by Rangeet Bhattacharyya, Anil Kumar
Chemistry · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications #Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications #Magnetic properties of thin films #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2003.10.133
12 pages, 5 figures. Chemical Physics Letters, in press
arxiv created 2003/11/07 · openalex publication_date 2003/12/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A new method of measuring long spin-lattice relaxation times (T1) is proposed. Being a single scan technique, the method is at least one order of magnitude faster than the conventional technique. This method (Single-Scan or Slice Selected Inversion Recovery or SSIR) relies on the slice selection technique. The method is experimentally verified and compared with the time taken by the conventional measurement. Furthermore, it is shown that the conventional Inversion Recovery (IR) method which suffers from effects of r.f. inhomogeneity can also be improved by measuring the magnetization of only a central slice.