Accurate Temperature Imaging Based on Intermolecular Coherences in Magnetic Resonance

• DOI: 10.1126/science.1163242
• Publication Date: 2008-10-16T21:04:23Z
• Authors: Gigi Galiana; Rosa T. Branca; Elizabeth R. Jenista; Warren S. Warren
• Keywords: Atmospheric temperature range

Conventional magnetic resonance methods that provide interior temperature profiles, which find use in clinical applications such as hyperthermic therapy, can develop inaccuracies caused by the inherently inhomogeneous field within tissues or probe dynamics, and work poorly important fatty tissues. We present a method is suitable for imaging wide range of environments. It uses sharp resonances intermolecular zero-quantum coherences, this case flipping up water spin while down nearby fat spin. show rapidly accurately assign temperatures vivo on an absolute scale.