POSTER by ¹Ester Maria Vasini, ²Villiam Bortolotti, ³Paola Fantazzini, and ¹Stanislav Sykora
¹Extra Byte, Castano Primo, Italy
²DICAM, University of Bologna,   ³DIFA, University of Bologna, Italy

Presented at XLVI GIDRM, Fisciano (Italy), September 27-29, 2017.

Please, cite this online document as:
Vasini E.M., Bortolotti V., Fantazzini P. and Sykora S.,
   PERFIDI Filters: A Summary,
   Poster at XLVI GIDRM, Fisciano (Italy), September 27-29, 2017, DOI: 10.3247/SL6Nmr17.007.

Abstract

In the field of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, the capability to distinguish/filter the signal of different part of a sample plays a key role in many applications. For example, in the medical field such possibility allows to improve the image contrast and the identification of the different tissue inside the human body. In the oil and gas field, the characterization of the different saturating reservoir fluids allows an optimized exploitation [1, 2].
 
Regarding T₁ filtering, the literature reports many sequences dedicated to signal selection such as Short Time Inversion Recovery and Multiple Inversion Recovery [3], but usually these techniques allow the selection of only a discrete number of T₁ values.
 
Parametrically Enabled Relaxation Filters with Double and Multiple Inversion [4, 5, 6] (PERFIDI) is an innovative technique which implements T₁ filters, but differently to the standard selective sequences, it allows to filter the signal of a selected range of T₁ values. PERFIDI filters, de facto, act like electronic band-pass, low-pass and high-pass filters. PERFIDI filters have been developed and tested both by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry and Imaging. Here we present a panoramic summary of this innovative filter technique, describing the validation of the method and the application on different kind of samples all characterized by a continuous T₁ distribution, such as biological tissue and oil-water saturated porous media.
 
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