title: Network images of drainage channels in sea spray icing by MR microscopy.
abstract: An MR imaging system was developed to visualize brine drainage channels in sea spray icing. Brine pockets trapped in spray-ice matrices during ice growth are structural features of sea spray icing. Brine in the spray ice sample had drained out; therefore, using a suction pump, we filled the air gaps in the drainage channels with dodecane. In the experiments, 0.5-1.0 h was necessary to accumulate signals sufficient to obtain a 3-D micro-image; the image matrix comprised 128(3) voxels (each voxel was 200 microm per side). The MIP view showed that sea spray icing has a developed drainage-channel network structure.
authors.affiliation: Hokkaido University of Education, Iwamizawa 068-8642, Japan. oze@iwa.hokkyodai.ac.jp
authors.forename: Toshihiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ozeki
authors.forename: Katsumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kose
authors.forename: Tomoyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Haishi
authors.forename: Shunichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakatsubo
authors.forename: Yoshimasa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuda
mesh_terms: D000473:Alkanes; D007053:Ice; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D012623:Seawater
chemical_list: D000473:Alkanes; D007053:Ice; C007548:n-dodecane