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Internal Magnetic Field Gradients in Heterogeneous Porous Systems: Comparison Between Spin-Echo and Diffusion Decay Internal Field (DDIF) Method

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Two techniques used for evaluating internal magnetic field gradient (G i), spin-echo (SE) and diffusion decay internal field (DDIF), were investigated at 9.4 T and compared in porous systems characterized by different pores size ranging from 4 to 96 μm with magnetic susceptibility difference between solid and liquid phase, \(\Delta \chi\) ≈ 1.6 ppm. Since diffusion of a fluid in a solid porous matrix plays a role in both SE and DDIF methods, we investigated these two different methods by highlighting their dependence on characteristic parameters and length scales used to describe diffusion behavior of fluids in porous systems. Therefore, G i behavior as a function of the dephasing length (l g), diffusion length (l d) and pores size (l s) was obtained. Moreover G i was evaluated by using both free diffusion and measured apparent diffusion coefficient of water, to quantify diffusion effect in different porous samples. This study gives more insight into the physical dynamics process to explain contrast mechanisms recently exploited by DDIF and SE applications for cancellous bone quality measurements.

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  1. Center for Life NanoScience@LaSapienza, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Viale Regina Elena 295, Rome, Italy

    Giulia Di Pietro

  2. CNR-IPCF UOS Roma Sapienza, Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Giulia Di Pietro, Marco Palombo & Silvia Capuani

  3. Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Marco Palombo

  4. Enrico Fermi Center, Rome, Italy

    Silvia Capuani

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Di Pietro, G., Palombo, M. & Capuani, S. Internal Magnetic Field Gradients in Heterogeneous Porous Systems: Comparison Between Spin-Echo and Diffusion Decay Internal Field (DDIF) Method. Appl Magn Reson 45, 771–784 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00723-014-0556-0

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