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The Bloch equation describes the evolution of classical particles tagged with a magnetisation vector in a strong magnetic field and is fundamental to many NMR and MRI contrast methods. The equation can be generalised to include the effects…
We discuss some challenges and recent advances in understanding the macroscopic signal formation at high non-narrow magnetic field gradients at which both the narrow pulse and the Gaussian phase approximations fail. The transverse…
An approximative method for solving the Bloch-Torrey equation in general porous media is presented. The method expand the boundaries defining the porous media using electrostatic charges. As a result the eigenvalue problem of the Laplace…
The complex transverse water proton magnetization subject to diffusion-encoding magnetic field gradient pulses in a heterogeneous medium such as brain tissue can be modeled by the Bloch-Torrey partial differential equation. The spatial…
In this paper commutator expansions for solving the Bloch-Torrey's equation are derived. An exact solution for free diffusion in a constant magnetic field gradient is found. Furthermore the moments of the signal in the short gradient pulse…
Diffusive spin exchange is one of the most important relaxation mechanisms in the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) applications to medicine and biology. Two models based on the Bloch-McConnell (B-M) and the Bloch-Torrey (B-T) equations are…
Lattice diffusion and internal local magnetic field gradients in solids are investigated by numerical simulation of nuclear mangetic resonance(NMR) spin echo experiments. The Fourier-spectrum method is employed in order to solve the…
High diffusion-sensitizing magnetic field gradients have been more and more often applied nowadays to achieve a better characterization of the microstructure. As the resulting spin-echo signal significantly deviates from the conventional…
We consider the Bloch-Torrey operator, $-\Delta + igx$, that governs the time evolution of the transverse magnetization in diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). Using the matrix formalism, we compute numerically the eigenvalues and…
In this work we investigate the emergence of the localization regime for diffusion in various geometries: inside slabs, inside cylinders and around rods arranged on a square array. At high gradients, the transverse magnetization is strongly…
We study the influence of diffusion on NMR experiments when the molecules undergo random motion under the influence of a force field, and place special emphasis on parabolic (Hookean) potentials. To this end, the problem is studied using…
We study magnetic fluctuations in a system of interacting spins on a lattice at high temperatures and in the presence of a spatially varying magnetic field. Starting from a microscopic Hamiltonian we derive effective equations of motion for…
Recently, there has been an examination of the nonexponential relaxation profiles of the NMR signal. The exponential relaxation from Bloch-Torrey equations with constant diffusion coefficients are known to be an approximation, and research…
We present a procedure for the systematic estimation of the dispersion properties of linear discrete systems with periodic time-varying coefficients. The approach relies on the analysis of a single unit cell, making use of Bloch theorem…
Traditional theories of the NMR autocorrelation function for intramolecular dipole pairs assume single-exponential decay, yet the calculated autocorrelation of realistic systems display a rich, multi-exponential behavior resulting in…
Band formation in periodic media is a central topic in undergraduate solid-state physics, typically introduced through Bloch's theorem as an eigenvalue problem in reciprocal space for infinitely periodic systems. While mathematically…
Pulsed-gradient spin-echo (PGSE) MRI experiments probe molecular self-diffusion through spin phase accumulation under time-dependent magnetic field gradients. For diffusion confined to cylindrical surfaces, existing analytical signal models…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a widely applied non-invasive imaging modality based on non-ionizing radiation which gives excellent images and soft tissue contrast of living tissues. We consider the modified Bloch problem as a model of…
In this paper we provide some uniqueness results for the (multi-)coefficient identification problem of reconstructing the spatially varying spin density as well as the spin-lattice and spin-spin relaxation times and the local field…
We consider the NMR signal from a permeable medium with a heterogeneous Larmor frequency component that varies on a scale comparable to the spin-carrier diffusion length. We focus on the mesoscopic part of the transverse relaxation, that…