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Direct multinuclear imaging of rigid solids has been performed using the conventional two-pulse spin-echo pulse sequence and liquids magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) hardware. Two-dimensional 27Al and 51V images of an Al2O3-V2O5-glass composite sample and 11B, 23Na, 27Al and 29Si images of glass have been detected, extending the range of nuclei and solid materials that can be studied by this approach. For a spinning cylinder packed with Al2O3 powder, quantitative velocity maps have been obtained by directly detecting the 27Al nuclear magnetic resonance signal of the solid phase. The two velocity components in the imaging plane transverse to the rotation axis have been mapped using the three-pulse stimulated echo sequence. Some possibilities to improve sensitivity in the MRI experiments on rigid solids have been considered. In particular, inversion of the satellite transitions by a double frequency sweep adiabatic passage has led to a signal enhancement by a factor of two in 27Al MRI of a glass sample despite a short repetition time (0.5 s) of the imaging pulse sequence.
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Authors' address: Igor V. Koptyug, International Tomography Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 3A Institutskaya ulitsa, Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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Koptyug, I., Khomichev, A., Lysova, A. et al. Multinuclear MRI of Solids: from Structure to Transport. Appl Magn Reson 32, 321–331 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00723-007-0017-0
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