Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2025.107925
Victor B. Kassey , Matthias Walle , Diana Yeritsyan , Daniel V. Kassey , Yaotang Wu , Brian D. Snyder , Edward K. Rodriguez , Jerome L. Ackerman , Ara Nazarian
Quantitative information on the composition of bone, specifically the content of calcium phosphate mineral and organic matrix, is essential for accurate diagnosis of metabolic bone diseases such as osteoporosis, osteomalacia, and renal osteodystrophy, as well as for differentiating among these conditions. Conventional MRI fails to provide this information because these substances are solid and, therefore, yield no signal in conventional MRI scans, which typically employ spin or gradient echoes. In this report, we show how phosphorus and proton solid-state MRI yield the desired compositional information in bone specimens with ZTE and WASPI pulse sequences, respectively, coupled with the use of a two-port double-tuned solenoidal RF coil.
Electrical network simulations and construction details of the RF coil are detailed. Electrical performance was simulated using QUCS software to find the circuit component values that minimize reflected power and maximize interport isolation. Phantoms of known composition, as well as ex vivo femurs from normal, low bone density, and vitamin D-deficient rats, were included in the study. A simple correction for B1 inhomogeneity was applied to achieve quantitative accuracy in the image intensity values.
Bone matrix and mineral densities derived from MRI strongly correlated (R2 = 0.84) with chemical analysis, demonstrating the ability to measure compositional differences relevant to osteoporosis and osteomalacia.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-06-23DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2025.107920
Zheng Zhang , Boris Epel , Buxin Chen , Dan Xia , Emil Y. Sidky , Howard Halpern , Xiaochuan Pan
Objective:
We investigate and develop algorithms for reconstructing effective probe-density images, and then for obtaining oxygen-concentration images, from data of a subject collected at sparse views (SVs) or over a limited-angular range (LAR) for possibly achieving fast pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPRI). We refer to the effective probe-density image simply as the EPR image in the work.
Methods:
The reconstruction problem of EPR images from SV or LAR data in pulsed EPRI is formulated as an optimization program that includes a constraint either on the total variation (TV) or on the directional-TVs (DTVs) of the EPR image. Two algorithms, referred to as TV and DTV algorithms, are developed then for reconstruction of EPR images, respectively, from SV and LAR data through solving the respective optimization programs. Oxygen-concentration image is estimated subsequently from the EPR images reconstructed.
Results:
Using numerical studies with simulated data of a digital phantom and also with real data of a physical phantom and a mouse model, we demonstrate the potential of the TV and DTV algorithms that yield, respectively, from SV and LAR data, numerically accurate EPR and oxygen-concentration images.
Conclusion:
The TV and DTV algorithms developed can yield numerically accurate EPR and oxygen-concentration images, respectively, from SV and LAR data in pulsed EPRI.
Significance:
The work may yield insights into the design of scans with minimized scanning time, thus potentially enabling basic and preclinical in vivo studies with fast pulsed EPRI.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-06-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2025.107926
Shengyu Zhang , Yuchen Li , Yansheng Ye , Fang Tian , Xinhua Peng , Riqiang Fu
The feasibility of applying the spin-echo based diagonal peak suppression method in solid-state MAS NMR homonuclear chemical shift correlation experiments is demonstrated. A complete phase cycling is designed to generate sine- and cosine-modulations of the chemical shift difference between the spin-diffused signals, enabling the quadrature detection in the indirect dimension. Meanwhile, all signals not involved in polarization transfer are refocused at the center of the indirect dimension. A data processing algorithm is developed to extract and suppress these spin-echo refocused signals without affecting nearby spin-diffused cross peaks. The processed spectrum is then converted into a conventional two-dimensional homonuclear chemical shift correlation spectrum, free of diagonal peaks. The effectiveness of this method is illustrated using a uniformly 13C-labeled Fmoc-leucine sample and a sample of human Atg8 homolog LC3B, directly conjugated to the amino headgroup of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) lipids in liposomes.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-05-30DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2025.107889
Jimmy E. Ball, Jim M. Wild, Graham Norquay
Rubidium (Rb) vapor density () is a key parameter in xenon-129 polarization () build up in spin-exchange optical pumping. In practice, within the cell often falls below saturation levels and is spatially heterogeneous leading to system underperformance. In this study, finite element modeling was performed to investigate the role of Rb source distribution in heterogeneous in-cell , and to optimize a Rb presaturator to achieve homogeneous and reduce the flow rate dependence of . Lower than expected in previous iterations of our polarizer can be attributed to sub-saturation due to the small surface area of the Rb source in the main cell body and the absence of upstream Rb vapor presaturation, leading to lower than desired . We found that increasing the surface area of the Rb source in the main cell body does not effectively reduce heterogeneity. Instead, achieving a more uniform distribution of necessitates the use of a sufficiently long presaturator at a given gas flow rate, increasing . We also report discrepancy between modeled and experimentally measured laser absorption, highlighting limitations of the existing optical pumping model and suggesting directions for future model revisions and the investigation of currently unexplored areas.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-05-29DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2025.107910
Supriya Pratihar , Yeongjoon Lee , Ainan Geng , Shibani Bhattacharya , Hashim M. Al-Hashimi
Chemical exchange-based NMR techniques provide powerful approaches for characterizing lowly-populated and short-lived conformational states in nucleic acids. Among possible probes, the nucleobase carbonyl and guanidino carbons stand out due to the sensitivity of their chemical shifts to hydrogen bonding and keto–enol tautomerization. However, chemical exchange measurements targeting these carbon nuclei have not yet been reported in studies of nucleic acids. Here, we present an experiment for measuring off-resonance R1ρ relaxation dispersion for guanine-C2, guanine-C6, thymine/uracil-C2, and thymine/uracil-C4 carbons in uniformly 13C/15N labeled nucleic acids. We demonstrate the utility of the experiment by characterizing chemical exchange in a G•T mismatch in duplex DNA between a dominant wobble conformation and two lowly-populated, short-lived, and rapidly interconverting Watson–Crick-like tautomeric states (Genol•T ⇌ G•Tenol) implicated in DNA replicative errors. The population and exchange rate deduced from the guanine-C6, guanine-C2, and thymine-C4 off-resonance R1ρ relaxation dispersion profiles were in excellent agreement with counterparts obtained from R1ρ measurements on proton-bound carbon and nitrogen nuclei. The carbon chemical shifts of the minor state were downfield shifted relative to the wobble ground state, consistent with (G)C6 = O···HO-C4(Tenol) and (Genol)C6-OH···O=C4(T) hydrogen bonding in the Watson-Crick-like tautomeric state. As a second application, we did not detect any exchange contribution to uracil-C2 and uracil-C4 R1ρ profiles measured for a U·U mismatch in RNA, consistent with isomerization between two alternative wobble conformations occurring on the sub-microsecond timescale. These results establish carbonyl and guanidino carbons as valuable probes for chemical exchange measurements of micro-to-millisecond motions in nucleic acids.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-06-02DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2025.107918
Paul S. Jacobs , Wyger M. Brink , Pradnya Narvekar , Neil E. Wilson , Anshuman Swain , Neeraj Panchal , Samir Mehta , Mark A. Elliott , Ravinder Reddy
Passive implanted devices are commonly contraindicated at ultra-high field MRI due to the risk of radiofrequency heating. Mitigation of this risk has come in many forms, such as modifying implant materials or creating novel radiofrequency coils. These methods require substantial involvement from manufacturers and may not benefit patients with existing implants. In this study, a tailored metasurface design is demonstrated to improve implant safety at 7 T by shielding the local B1+ field. A prototype metasurface was designed and implemented with a unit cell size of 15 mm using discrete capacitors of 30 pF values. Phantom and human body model simulations were used to validate differences in the SAR distribution with and without the metasurface. Fiber optic temperature probes were used to measure temperature increase across two representative orthopedic screws placed inside a tissue mimicking phantom during a high-SAR sequence. Phantom and in-vivo imaging were performed to assess the metasurface effect on image quality. With the metasurface, an average maximum temperature decrease of 0.50 °C or 34.9 % near the implant was observed. RF field simulations yielded similar decreases in SAR for the phantom (40.7 %) and substantial decreases for the in-vivo leg model (97 %). Phantom image SNR showed a global 8.5 % decrease with the metasurface while in-vivo images showed a 4.8 % decrease in SNR, with the region in its immediate vicinity experiencing substantial signal drop. These results demonstrate the feasibility of a metasurface designed to substantially reduce local RF induced heating with only minor degradation of image quality. Future work will focus on refinement of the metasurface design and further in-vivo testing.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-05-21DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2025.107899
Yuki Toyama , Koh Takeuchi , Ichio Shimada
Fluorine 19 (19F) in aromatic rings serves as a useful spin probe for studying the structure, dynamics, and intermolecular interactions of biomolecules and small-molecule ligands. Although 19F NMR involving aromatic 19F probes has a number of applications, quantitative relaxation analyses of these probes remain challenging due to the complexity of 1H-19F spin interaction networks. In this study, we investigated 1H-19F spin interactions in the 5-fluorotryptophan system, focusing on the effects of 1H decoupling on 19F relaxation properties and line shape. We demonstrate that 1H decoupling significantly slows down the 19F magnetization recovery process, leading to reduced sensitivity particularly in large proteins. In addition, 1H decoupling effectively eliminates cross-correlations between 19F chemical shift anisotropy and 1H-19F dipole-dipole interactions, resolving the asymmetric line shape of the aromatic 19F signal. Through experimental and theoretical analyses of the 1H-coupled 19F spin system, we propose a model that explains these relaxation behaviors. Our results offer practical guidelines for optimizing 1H decoupling schemes in aromatic 19F probes, thereby expanding the utility of 19F NMR.
{"title":"Evaluating the effect of 1H decoupling on 19F longitudinal relaxation and signal line shape in 5-Fluorotryptophan","authors":"Yuki Toyama , Koh Takeuchi , Ichio Shimada","doi":"10.1016/j.jmr.2025.107899","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmr.2025.107899","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fluorine 19 (<sup>19</sup>F) in aromatic rings serves as a useful spin probe for studying the structure, dynamics, and intermolecular interactions of biomolecules and small-molecule ligands. Although <sup>19</sup>F NMR involving aromatic <sup>19</sup>F probes has a number of applications, quantitative relaxation analyses of these probes remain challenging due to the complexity of <sup>1</sup>H-<sup>19</sup>F spin interaction networks. In this study, we investigated <sup>1</sup>H-<sup>19</sup>F spin interactions in the 5-fluorotryptophan system, focusing on the effects of <sup>1</sup>H decoupling on <sup>19</sup>F relaxation properties and line shape. We demonstrate that <sup>1</sup>H decoupling significantly slows down the <sup>19</sup>F magnetization recovery process, leading to reduced sensitivity particularly in large proteins. In addition, <sup>1</sup>H decoupling effectively eliminates cross-correlations between <sup>19</sup>F chemical shift anisotropy and <sup>1</sup>H-<sup>19</sup>F dipole-dipole interactions, resolving the asymmetric line shape of the aromatic <sup>19</sup>F signal. Through experimental and theoretical analyses of the <sup>1</sup>H-coupled <sup>19</sup>F spin system, we propose a model that explains these relaxation behaviors. Our results offer practical guidelines for optimizing <sup>1</sup>H decoupling schemes in aromatic <sup>19</sup>F probes, thereby expanding the utility of <sup>19</sup>F NMR.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16267,"journal":{"name":"Journal of magnetic resonance","volume":"377 ","pages":"Article 107899"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2025.107908
Motahareh G. Larimi, Robert Tycko
We investigate the effects of insufficient 31P pulse amplitudes on 13C-detected 31P13C Rotational-Echo Double-Resonance (REDOR) measurements in a 17.5 T magnetic field. Experimental REDOR data on two compounds show that normalized REDOR difference signals are suppressed when the amplitudes of 31P π pulse trains are not very large compared with the 31P chemical shift anisotropies. This behavior is explained theoretically by an analysis of the effects of imperfections in π pulse rotations due to the orientation-dependent and time-dependent resonance offsets under magic-angle spinning in REDOR measurements. We show that effects of the same pulse imperfections can be observed directly by measurements of an effective relaxation time for longitudinal 31P spin polarization under identical π pulse trains.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2025.107890
Tianzhi Wang , Daniel Arcos , F. David Doty , B. Montgomery Pettitt , Junji Iwahara
NMR-based diffusion measurements of potassium (K+), magnesium (Mg2+), chloride (Cl−), and sulfate (SO42−) ions have been challenging even though these ions are biologically important. For these ions, the gyromagnetic ratios of the NMR-active nuclei, 39K, 25Mg, 35Cl, and 33S, are less than 1/10 of the 1H gyromagnetic ratio, causing a low sensitivity in NMR detection and a low efficiency in NMR dephasing needed for diffusion measurements. These nuclei also undergo rapid longitudinal and transverse NMR relaxation via the quadrupolar mechanism, severely limiting the effectiveness of NMR-based diffusion measurements. Interactions with biomolecules promote the NMR relaxation of these ions, hindering measurements of the ion diffusion. We demonstrate that, despite these challenges, diffusion of K+, Mg2+, Cl−, and SO42− ions in biomolecular solutions can be measured accurately and precisely through use of appropriately designed high-field NMR probe hardware that can generate strong field gradients >1000 G/cm. The NMR-based diffusion coefficients measured at 17.6 T for these ions in the absence of biomolecules agreed well with conductivity-based values in the literature. This consistency supports that ion diffusion along the magnetic field is unaffected by the Lorentz force acting on the ions, as previously predicted. Our data on ion diffusion in solutions of proteins and DNA illuminate the effect of electrostatic interactions on the apparent diffusion coefficients of ions. Thus, high-field NMR probe hardware that can generate strong field gradients opens a new avenue to characterize the dynamic behavior of various ions around biomolecules and their effect on biomolecular electrostatics.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2025.107898
Yihui Huang , Zi Wang , Xinlin Zhang , Jian Cao , Zhangren Tu , Meijin Lin , Lv Li , Xianwang Jiang , Di Guo , Xiaobo Qu
Undersampling accelerates signal acquisition at the expense of introducing artifacts. Removing these artifacts is a fundamental problem in signal processing and this task is also called signal reconstruction. Through modeling signals as the superimposed exponential functions, deep learning has achieved fast and high-fidelity signal reconstruction by training a mapping from the undersampled exponentials to the fully sampled ones. However, the mismatch, such as undersampling rates (25 % vs. 50 %), anatomical region (knee vs. brain), and contrast configurations (PDw vs. T2w), between the training and target data will heavily compromise the reconstruction. To overcome this limitation, we propose Alternating Deep Low-Rank (ADLR), which combines deep learning solvers and classic optimization solvers. Experimental validation on the reconstruction of synthetic and real-world biomedical magnetic resonance signals demonstrates that ADLR can effectively alleviate the mismatch issue and achieve lower reconstruction errors than state-of-the-art methods.
欠采样以引入伪影为代价加速信号采集。去除这些伪影是信号处理中的一个基本问题,这项任务也被称为信号重建。通过将信号建模为叠加的指数函数,深度学习通过训练从欠采样指数到全采样指数的映射,实现了快速高保真的信号重建。然而,训练数据和目标数据之间的不匹配,如采样不足率(25% vs 50%)、解剖区域(膝盖vs大脑)和对比配置(PDw vs T2w),将严重影响重建。为了克服这一限制,我们提出了交替深度低秩(ADLR),它结合了深度学习求解器和经典优化求解器。对合成和真实生物医学磁共振信号的重建实验验证表明,ADLR可以有效地缓解不匹配问题,实现比现有方法更低的重建误差。
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