APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Materials characterization for commercial manufacturing quality control development of unique materials research and education ADVANTAGES: Enables smaller, more versatile characterization devices Can be used to characterize almost any kind of material ABSTRACT: Berkeley Lab’s Alex Pines has led a team of researchers in … [Read more...] about Specialized Diamond Materials for NMR Signal Enhancement 2016-156
NMR / MRI
Low Field Xenon NMR 2016-166
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Drug binding assays Protein assays Other chemical and biological analysis ADVANTAGES: Enables xenon NMR in miniaturized assays and portable devices ABSTRACT: Berkeley Lab’s Alex Pines and a team of researchers have developed a technology to use hyperpolarized xenon at low magnetic fields – on the order of the Earth’s magnetic … [Read more...] about Low Field Xenon NMR 2016-166
Low-Field NMR/MRI Using Rotating-Frame Gradient Fields IB-2288
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Portable MRI of: Oil fields at any depth, for MRI devices that can be sent into the borehole Joints, brain, prostate, heart, lungs (may be used with hyperpolarized noble gas) Water content of soil and its distribution Surface measurements (maps) of skin and other biological tissue Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in low … [Read more...] about Low-Field NMR/MRI Using Rotating-Frame Gradient Fields IB-2288
Zooming in on Microscopic Flow by Remotely Detected NMR / MRI
December 6, 2010 ABSTRACT: Alexander Pines and colleagues at Berkeley Lab have been able to use NMR/MRI to image materials flowing through microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices and zoom in on microscopic objects of interest with unprecedented spatial and time resolutions. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Bajaj, V. S., Paulsen, J., Harel, E., Pines, A. "Zooming In on Microscopic … [Read more...] about Zooming in on Microscopic Flow by Remotely Detected NMR / MRI
Lab-On-A-Chip for Detection of Near-Zero Field NMR and MRI JIB-2534
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Designing new drugs; parallel processing drugs Designing microchip NMR/MRI detectors Mass manufacturing microfabricated devices Biomedical, pharmaceutical and geologic industry research ADVANTAGES: Operates remotely or nonremotely Does not require superconducting magnets or cryogenic systems Enables further miniaturization of … [Read more...] about Lab-On-A-Chip for Detection of Near-Zero Field NMR and MRI JIB-2534