title: High-resolution magnetic resonance spectroscopy in unstable fields via intermolecular zero-quantum coherences.
abstract: Intermolecular zero-quantum coherences (iZQCs) have been utilized to achieve high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) proton spectra under inhomogeneous and/or unstable fields. In this paper, we demonstrated that despite the insensitivity of iZQCs to B(0) variations, the influence of unstable fields on the observable single-quantum coherence signals causes strong t(1) noises in the high-resolution iZQC spectra. Short-time acquisition (STA) and phase spectrum schemes were proposed for noise suppression in in vivo iZQC magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) under temporal B(0) variations. The feasibility of these schemes were verified by localized spectroscopic studies under B(0) variations generated by the Z0 coil current oscillations and by voxel position variations in the presence of field gradients, which simulate the field conditions of MRS in the presence of physiological motions. The phase scheme not only improves the signal-to-noise ratio but also further reduces the linewidth by half.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Fujian Key Laboratory of Plasma and Magnetic Resonance, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
authors.forename: Meijin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Xi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shuhui
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Zhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen