{"id":7427,"date":"2011-12-15T16:05:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2011-12-15T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:05:18","slug":"european-grant-awarded-for-research-on-enhanced-mri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=7427","title":{"rendered":"European Grant Awarded for Research on Enhanced MRI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7429\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MalcolmLevitt_UnivSouthampton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7429\" title=\"MalcolmLevitt_UnivSouthampton\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MalcolmLevitt_UnivSouthampton.jpg\" alt=\"Malcolm Levitt (University of Southampton)\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MalcolmLevitt_UnivSouthampton.jpg 300w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MalcolmLevitt_UnivSouthampton-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malcolm Levitt (University of Southampton)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A chemistry professor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soton.ac.uk\/mediacentre\/news\/2011\/dec\/11_129.shtml\">University of Southampton<\/a> in the U.K. has received a grant for research on enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), a principle underlying magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), widely used in medical diagnostics. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhl.soton.ac.uk\/public\/Main\/index.html\">Malcolm Levitt and colleagues<\/a> at Southampton were awarded a four-year, \u20ac2.8 million ($US 3.8 million) grant from the <a href=\"http:\/\/erc.europa.eu\/\">European Research Council <\/a>to support Levitt&#8217;s work on lengthening the active time of NMR signals.<\/p>\n<p>NMR is the physical principle underlying MRI scanning, but NMR signals are inherently weak. To overcome this basic weakness, methods have been developed to generate a phenomenon in substances called hyperpolarization that can lead to NMR signals with potentially more than 100,000 times the strength of normal signals.<\/p>\n<p>While the strength of the signal may be boosted, the amount of time an NMR signal of this magnitude lasts is very limited, no more than a minute in the best of cases. Previous research at Southampton, however, has shown the existence of quantum states that have very long lifetimes, in some substances as much as a half-hour.<\/p>\n<p>The new ERC grant will fund a project that combines the hyperpolarization effect to boost NMR signal strength with the long-life quantum states developed in Southampton. The combination could lead to the best case scenario: much stronger NMR signals with the longevity needed to perform MRI scans.<\/p>\n<p>The grant will also fund the acquisition of new equipment for Southampton labs. One new piece will be a polarizer, designed and constructed in Southampton, to generate substances exhibiting the hyperpolarization phenomenon. The second piece of equipment will be a NMR spectrometer equipped to perform small-scale MRI experiments. before conducting live tests on a clinical MRI scanner.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=4660\">Mayo Clinic, GE to Research Brain-Scan MRI Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chemistry professor at University of Southampton in the U.K. has received a grant for research on enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), a principle underlying magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), widely used in medical diagnostics. Malcolm Levitt and colleagues at Southampton were awarded a four-year, \u20ac2.8 million ($US 3.8 million) grant from the European Research Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[31,96,86,45,38,64,77,105,47,90,26],"class_list":["post-7427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-products","tag-biomedical","tag-chemistry","tag-engineering","tag-europe","tag-grant","tag-life-sciences","tag-medical-device","tag-physical-sciences","tag-physics","tag-u-k","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7427"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7433,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions\/7433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}