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A continuous-flow, high-throughput, high-pressure parahydrogen converter for hyperpolarization in a clinical setting
Jan-Bernd Hövener,Sébastien Bär,Jochen Leupold,Klaus Jenne,Dieter Leibfritz,Jürgen Hennig,Simon B. Duckett,Dominik von Elverfeldt +7 more
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This article presents the safety concept, design and installation of a pH2 converter, operated in a clinical setting, and a dependence of line width on pH2 enrichment is observed.Abstract:
Pure parahydrogen (pH2) is the prerequisite for optimal pH2-based hyperpolarization experiments, promising approaches to access the hidden orders of magnitude of MR signals. pH2 production on-site in medical research centers is vital for the proliferation of these technologies in the life sciences. However, previously suggested designs do not meet our requirements for safety or production performance (flow rate, pressure or enrichment). In this article, we present the safety concept, design and installation of a pH2 converter, operated in a clinical setting. The apparatus produces a continuous flow of four standard liters per minute of ≈98% enriched pH2 at a pressure maximum of 50 bar. The entire production cycle, including cleaning and cooling to 25 K, takes less than 5 h, only ≈45 min of which are required for actual pH2 conversion. A fast and simple quantification procedure is described. The lifetimes of pH2 in a glass vial and aluminum storage cylinder are measured to be T1C(glass vial) = 822 ± 29 min and T1C(Al cylinder) = 129 ± 36 days, thus providing sufficiently long storage intervals and allowing the application of pH2 on demand. A dependence of line width on pH2 enrichment is observed. As examples, 1H hyperpolarization of pyridine and 13C hyperpolarization of hydroxyethylpropionate are presented. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.read more
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Current research trends and perspectives on materials-based hydrogen storage solutions: A critical review
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the current research trends and perspectives on materials-based hydrogen storage including both material-based physical and chemical storage is presented, and the concept of storing hydrogen in para form for longterm hydrogen storage is discussed, and a converter packed with catalysts to process the normal hydrogen to para-hydrogen is highlighted.
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Parahydrogen-Based Hyperpolarization for Biomedicine
Jan-Bernd Hövener,Andrey N. Pravdivtsev,Bryce E. Kidd,C. Russell Bowers,Stefan Glöggler,Kirill V. Kovtunov,Markus Plaumann,Rachel Katz-Brull,K. Buckenmaier,Alexej Jerschow,Francesca Reineri,Thomas Theis,Roman V. Shchepin,Shawn Wagner,Pratip K. Bhattacharya,Niki M. Zacharias,Eduard Y. Chekmenev,Eduard Y. Chekmenev +17 more
TL;DR: Considerable progress has been made in the past decade in the area of pH2 -based hyperpolarization techniques for biomedical applications, covering the areas of spin physics, catalysis, instrumentation, preparation of the contrast agents, and applications.
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NMR Hyperpolarization Techniques of Gases.
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A hyperpolarized equilibrium for magnetic resonance
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Toward biocompatible nuclear hyperpolarization using signal amplification by reversible exchange: quantitative in situ spectroscopy and high-field imaging.
Jan-Bernd Hövener,Jan-Bernd Hövener,Niels Schwaderlapp,Robert Borowiak,Robert Borowiak,Thomas Lickert,Simon B. Duckett,Ryan E. Mewis,Ralph W. Adams,Michael J. Burns,Louise A. R. Highton,Gary G. R. Green,Alexandra M. Olaru,Jürgen Hennig,Dominik von Elverfeldt +14 more
TL;DR: A low-field SABRE polarizer is presented which provides well-controlled experimental conditions, defined spins manipulations, and which allows in situ detection of thermally polarized and hyperpolarized samples.
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