title: Transverse NMR relaxation in magnetically heterogeneous media.
abstract: We consider the NMR signal from a permeable medium with a heterogeneous Larmor frequency component that varies on a scale comparable to the spin-carrier diffusion length. We focus on the mesoscopic part of the transverse relaxation, that occurs due to dispersion of precession phases of spins accumulated during diffusive motion. By relating the spectral lineshape to correlation functions of the spatially varying Larmor frequency, we demonstrate how the correlation length and the variance of the Larmor frequency distribution can be determined from the NMR spectrum. We corroborate our results by numerical simulations, and apply them to quantify human blood spectra.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. dima@alum.mit.edu
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Novikov
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Kiselev
mesh_terms: D001774:Blood Chemical Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008280:Magnetics; D008956:Models, Chemical