In the past few years,efforts have been made to extend the sensitivity of surface nuclear magnetic resonance(SNMR)to short relaxation times,typical for strongly bound water,which,for example,occurs in partially satura...In the past few years,efforts have been made to extend the sensitivity of surface nuclear magnetic resonance(SNMR)to short relaxation times,typical for strongly bound water,which,for example,occurs in partially saturated soils.The two limiting factors for the sensitivity are the dead time after the excitation pulse and the duration of the pulse itself.To enable short pulses,while also achieving proper depths of investigation,high pulse amplitudes are needed.This makes it necessary to consider the Bloch-Siegert effect,i.e.the counter-rotating component and the parallel component of the excitation field have significant influence on the excitation.If an untuned transmitter circuit is used,the pulse shape will also be non-sinusoidal.In this paper,we demonstrate that this influences SNMR measurements with short pulses in two ways:On one hand,the pulse shape influences the phase of the fundamental frequency oscillation.On the other,at very high pulse amplitudes,other frequency components of the excitation field start to influence the excitation.The behavior of the macroscopic magnetizations in the subsurface during the pulse is simulated by solving the Bloch equations,using the pulse shape as an input.Since these calculations are computational expensive,we propose a lookup scheme that allows a time efficient modeling of the obtained SNMR data.展开更多
A recent study demonstrated that in small-scale prepolarized surface nuclear magnetic resonance(SNMR-PP)measurements with a footprint of a few square meters,customized PP switch-off ramps can serve as an efficient exc...A recent study demonstrated that in small-scale prepolarized surface nuclear magnetic resonance(SNMR-PP)measurements with a footprint of a few square meters,customized PP switch-off ramps can serve as an efficient excitation mechanism,eliminating the requirement for a conventional oscillating excitation pulse.This approach enables the detection of short relaxation signals from the unsaturated soil zone and can,therefore,be used to directly provide soil moisture and pore geometry information.Because ultimately such small-scale SNMR-PP setups are intended for a mobile application,it is necessary to develop strategies that allow for speedy measurement progress and do not require noise cancellation protocols based on reference stations.Hence,we developed a new concentric figure-of-eight(cFOE)loop layout that combines the direction independence of a circular loop with the intrinsic noise cancellation properties of a classical FOE-loop.This approach significantly decreases the measurement time because suitable signal-to-noise ratios are reached much faster compared to a classical circular loop and will bring us one step further toward fast and non-invasive soil moisture mapping applications.展开更多
基金funded by the German Research Foundation(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft-DFG)under grant MU 3318/8-1.
文摘In the past few years,efforts have been made to extend the sensitivity of surface nuclear magnetic resonance(SNMR)to short relaxation times,typical for strongly bound water,which,for example,occurs in partially saturated soils.The two limiting factors for the sensitivity are the dead time after the excitation pulse and the duration of the pulse itself.To enable short pulses,while also achieving proper depths of investigation,high pulse amplitudes are needed.This makes it necessary to consider the Bloch-Siegert effect,i.e.the counter-rotating component and the parallel component of the excitation field have significant influence on the excitation.If an untuned transmitter circuit is used,the pulse shape will also be non-sinusoidal.In this paper,we demonstrate that this influences SNMR measurements with short pulses in two ways:On one hand,the pulse shape influences the phase of the fundamental frequency oscillation.On the other,at very high pulse amplitudes,other frequency components of the excitation field start to influence the excitation.The behavior of the macroscopic magnetizations in the subsurface during the pulse is simulated by solving the Bloch equations,using the pulse shape as an input.Since these calculations are computational expensive,we propose a lookup scheme that allows a time efficient modeling of the obtained SNMR data.
基金supported by the German Research Foundation(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft-DFG)under grant MU 3318/4-1.
文摘A recent study demonstrated that in small-scale prepolarized surface nuclear magnetic resonance(SNMR-PP)measurements with a footprint of a few square meters,customized PP switch-off ramps can serve as an efficient excitation mechanism,eliminating the requirement for a conventional oscillating excitation pulse.This approach enables the detection of short relaxation signals from the unsaturated soil zone and can,therefore,be used to directly provide soil moisture and pore geometry information.Because ultimately such small-scale SNMR-PP setups are intended for a mobile application,it is necessary to develop strategies that allow for speedy measurement progress and do not require noise cancellation protocols based on reference stations.Hence,we developed a new concentric figure-of-eight(cFOE)loop layout that combines the direction independence of a circular loop with the intrinsic noise cancellation properties of a classical FOE-loop.This approach significantly decreases the measurement time because suitable signal-to-noise ratios are reached much faster compared to a classical circular loop and will bring us one step further toward fast and non-invasive soil moisture mapping applications.
