Journal
CONTRAST MEDIA & MOLECULAR IMAGING
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 41-46Publisher
WILEY-HINDAWI
DOI: 10.1002/cmmi.1656
Keywords
lithium; hyperpolarization; dynamic nuclear polarization; magnetic resonance; MRI; molecular imaging; blood; deoxyhemoglobin
Funding
- Swiss National Science Foundation [200020_124901, PP00P2_133562, 31003A_131087]
- Centre d'Imagerie BioMedicale (CIBM) of the UNIL
- UNIGE
- HUG
- CHUV
- EPFL
- Leenards Foundation
- Jeantet Foundation
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200020_124901] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Hyperpolarization by dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is a versatile technique to dramatically enhance the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal intensity of insensitive long-T-1 nuclear spins such as Li-6. The Li-6 longitudinal relaxation of lithium ions in aqueous solutions strongly depends on the concentration of paramagnetic species, even if they are present in minute amounts. We herein demonstrate that blood oxygenation can be readily detected by taking advantage of the Li-6 signal enhancement provided by dissolution DNP, together with the more than 10% decrease in Li-6 longitudinal relaxation as a consequence of the presence of paramagnetic deoxyhemoglobin. Copyright (c) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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