A 3D-Printed High Power Nuclear Spin Polarizer

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• 作者：Panayiotis Nikolaou ; Aaron M. Coffey ; Laura L. Walkup ; Brogan M. Gust ; Cristen D. LaPierre ; Edward Koehnemann ; Michael J. Barlow ; Matthew S. Rosen ; Boyd M. Goodson ; Eduard Y. Chekmenev
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：January 29, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：136
• 期：4
• 页码：1636-1642
• 全文大小：405K
• ISSN：1520-5126

文摘

Three-dimensional printing with high-temperature plastic is used to enable spin exchange optical pumping (SEOP) and hyperpolarization of xenon-129 gas. The use of 3D printed structures increases the simplicity of integration of the following key components with a variable temperature SEOP probe: (i) in situ NMR circuit operating at 84 kHz (Larmor frequencies of ¹²⁹Xe and ¹H nuclear spins), (ii) <0.3 nm narrowed 200 W laser source, (iii) in situ high-resolution near-IR spectroscopy, (iv) thermoelectric temperature control, (v) retroreflection optics, and (vi) optomechanical alignment system. The rapid prototyping endowed by 3D printing dramatically reduces production time and expenses while allowing reproducibility and integration of 鈥渙ff-the-shelf鈥?components and enables the concept of printing on demand. The utility of this SEOP setup is demonstrated here to obtain near-unity ¹²⁹Xe polarization values in a 0.5 L optical pumping cell, including 74 卤 7% at 1000 Torr xenon partial pressure, a record value at such high Xe density. Values for the ¹²⁹Xe polarization exponential build-up rate [(3.63 卤 0.15) 脳 10^鈥? min^鈥?] and in-cell ¹²⁹Xe spin鈥搇attice relaxation time (T₁ = 2.19 卤 0.06 h) for 1000 Torr Xe were in excellent agreement with the ratio of the gas-phase polarizations for ¹²⁹Xe and Rb (P_Rb 96%). Hyperpolarization-enhanced ¹²⁹Xe gas imaging was demonstrated with a spherical phantom following automated gas transfer from the polarizer. Taken together, these results support the development of a wide range of chemical, biochemical, material science, and biomedical applications.