FAST DETERMINATION OF 2D AND PSEUDO-2D T1-T2 CORRELATION USING CWFP AND DECPMG METHODS

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  • Presentation type: Poster Presentation
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  • Keywords: longitudinal relaxation; transversal relaxation; T1-T2 correlation;
  • 1 Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
  • 2 Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária
  • 3 Departamento de Química / Instituto de Ciências Exatas / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

FAST DETERMINATION OF 2D AND PSEUDO-2D T1-T2 CORRELATION USING CWFP AND DECPMG METHODS

Tiago Bueno de Moraes

Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Abstract

New permanent magnet designs have recently enabled portable devices to perform relaxometry studies in compact and inexpensive low-field systems. For these sensors, protocols for fast acquisitions of T1-T2 correlations maps are widely desired due to their potential application in process and quality control in industries. Fast pulse sequences based on Continuous Wave Free Precession (CWFP) [1] and Driven Equilibrium (DE) [2] regime are potential candidates for these fast protocols. Recently, it has been demonstrated that CWFP, using low flip angle (CWFP-T1), can be combined with CPMG (Carr-Purcell Meiboom-Gill) and PGSE (Pulse Gradient Spin Echo) to obtain T1–T2 [3] and diffusion-T1 [4] correlation maps, respectively. Furthermore, a pseudo-bi-dimensional (2D) DECPMG has shown to be a fast alternative method to 2D ones to obtain T1-T2 correlation maps [2]. 2D-CWFP sequences were compared to conventional methods to determine fat/oil content and water compartmentalization in general food samples [3,4], while the DECPMG experiment was employed as a potential method for identifying oil and water in rocks [2]. In this work, we evaluate and compare the T1-T2 conventional method (IR-CPMG: Inversion Recovery-CPMG) with the fast methods 2D CPMG-CWFP-T1 and the pseudo-2D DECPMG for phantom and castor-bean oil samples. The results demonstrated that the 2D CPMG-CWFP-T1 has a shorter experimental time and yield higher resolution 2D maps than IR-CPMG. The pseudo-2D DECPMG method has the shortest experimental time among the three methods, however, with much lower resolution 2D correlation maps.

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Tatiana Monaretto

Hello, Lorena, thank you for the question. 
Actually, the resolution problem, in this case, is associated with the number of experiments. In the case of DECPMG, we have just two experiments: it's a pseud-2D experiment. Consequently, even if the signal would be acquired with more scans, the map resolution wouldn't greatly improve. On the other hand, by real 2D experiments, like CPMG-CWFP-T1 and IR-CPMG, the number of experiments is the same as the number of points on the indirect dimension. For example, on the signals acquired in our study, the indirect dimension has 32 points, therefore, we have 32 experiments on the direct dimension.

Lorena Mara Alexandre e Silva

Ok. Thanks for your feedback! Cheers 

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Tatiana Monaretto

You are so welcome.