Speaker
Description
Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation (DNP) is powerful technique for enhancing the sensitivity of Nuclear Magnectic Resonance (NMR). Originally developed in 1960s, the DNP has been deployed in nuclear polarised targets around the world for high-energy scattering experiments. In the last 20 years DNP found its way back in modern NMR spectroscopy and imagining. There are currently very few commercially available DNP polarisers and they come with prohibitively high cost.
In 2023 the CERN Medical Applications funding gave financial support to develop compact and relatively cheap DNP polariser. The system employs custom built superconducting magnet, microwave system and NMR detection. The cooling is provided by conventional liquid helium dewar, decreasing the cost and complexity of such a system.
In this presentation I will give a brief overview of the project, the current status and future development. I will also describe the plans for using the system for the first ever polarisation of radioactive nuclei using DNP. If successful this would open the possibility of deploying the radiation-detected NMR technique outside of facilities like VITO at ISOLDE and thus allowing for more widespread use of the radiation-detected NMR technique.
