title: Empirical compensation function for eddy current effects in pulsed field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance experiments.
abstract: An empirical compensation function for the correction of eddy current effects in the Stejskal-Tanner pulsed-gradient spin-echo (PGSE) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments has been established. Eddy currents may arise as a result of the application of sharp and strong gradient pulses and may cause severe distortion of the NMR signals. In this method, the length of one gradient pulse is altered to compensate for the eddy current effects. The compensation is considered to be ideal when the position and the phase of the spin-echo maximum obtained from an aqueous solution of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) is the same in the presence and absence of a gradient pulse in the PGSE pulse sequence. We first characterized the functional dependence of the length of the required compensation on the three principal variables in the PGSE experiment: the gradient strength, the duration of the gradient pulse, and the interval between the two gradient pulses. Subsequently, we derived a model which successfully describes the general relationship between these variables and the size of the induced eddy current. The parameters extracted from fitting the model to the experimental compensation data may be used to predict the correct compensation for any combination of the three principal variables.
authors.affiliation: Département de Chimie, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: X X
authors.initials: XX
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Macdonald
mesh_terms: D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008280:Magnetics; D008432:Mathematical Computing