MANGANESE IMPURITY SPECTRAL SUBTRACTION PROGRAM

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. The problem of a strong manganese signal is very well known in high-field EPR. Unfortunately, because of the peculiarities of its spin-lattice relaxation this signal is nearly ubiquitous in biological samples even with careful sample preparation techniques. Since biological samples usually need quite high modulation amplitude to enhance the signal to noise ratio, the narrow impurity lineshape is often overmodulated and it is not easy to subtract the impurity line. We have started work on a computational algorithm to allow for accurate subtraction of the impurity line in order to recover the desired spectrum for subsequent analysis.