CryoMAS Probes for Order-of-Magnitude Advance in S/N in NMR of Solids

CryoMAS 探针可实现固体 NMR 中信噪比的数量级提升

• 批准号: 8515479
• 负责人: Francis DAVID Doty
• 金额: $ 57万
• 依托单位: DOTY SCIENTIFIC, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-15 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8515479
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Magic Angle Spinning (MAS) is utilized by thousands of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) researchers in fields such as macromolecule structure determination, membrane proteins, catalysis, and organo-metallo-complexes. For over three decades, High-Resolution (HR) NMR has been a leading analytical technique for structure and function elucidation of molecules of all types, large and small, in homogeneous systems. More recently, HR-MAS has been used to extend the technique to inhomogeneous systems, such as human and animal tissues. The 1H HR-MAS spectrum of malignant breast cancer tissue shows dramatically increased levels of phosphocholine compared to nonmalignant breast tissue, and it appears likely that many other unambiguous markers can be identified for other pathologies if the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the HR-MAS probe can be increased sufficiently. HR NMR probes for liquids have become available with cryogenically cooled sample coils that are revolutionizing the field of NMR owing to their factor-of-four improvement in SNR. Even greater improvements in SNR can be achieved with CryoMAS probes of several common types, including 1H/13C/15N and 1H/X. Our work thus far demonstrated about a factor-of-five improvement in SNR in MAS experiments in probes of both of the above types by cryogenically cooling the coils and circuit elements to 25 K while the sample was maintained at room temperature. A substantial additional increase in SNR is expected from a combination of further advances during the Phase II. These advances will include (1) novel coil technology enabling more than a 50% increase in resonator quality factor Q at 25 K in high magnetic fields, (2) refinements in a hermetically sealed spinner design enabling a 25% improvement in magnetic filling factor of the cryocoils, (3) a factor of two increase in the Q of HV ceramic capacitors in the 400-1000 MHz range, and (4) ability to achieve over 75 kHz 1H decoupling field strength in a triple-resonance CryoMAS probe to at least 11.7 T. Substantial improvements in spinning at sample temperatures down to 30 K will also be developed, and provisions for millimeter-wave irradiation will be added to enable Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) to be easily added. Reducing the sample temperature from 90 K to 40 K in MAS DNP is expected to often in- crease S/N in DNP experiments by an order of magnitude. Additional improvements in S/N will come from further progress in reduction of noise figure (NF) of cryogenically cooled preamps based on the Enhancement mode Pseudomorphic High Electron Mobility Transistors (E-PHEMT). Key Words: solids NMR probes, cryoprobes, HR-MAS, cancer diagnostic tests, molecular structures, cryogenic preamps, dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP)

描述(申请人提供)：魔角自旋(MAS)被数千名核磁共振研究人员用于大分子结构测定、膜蛋白、催化和有机金属络合物等领域。三十多年来，高分辨率(HR)核磁共振一直是均相体系中所有类型的大小分子结构和功能阐明的领先分析技术。最近，HR-MAS已被用于将该技术扩展到非均质系统，如人类和动物组织。恶性乳腺癌组织的1H HR-MAS谱显示，与非恶性乳腺组织相比，磷胆碱水平显著增加，如果HR-MAS探针的信噪比(SNR)能够充分提高，似乎有可能为其他病理组织识别许多其他明确的标志物。用于液体的HR核磁共振探头已经可以与低温冷却的样品线圈一起使用，由于其信噪比提高了四倍，这将给核磁共振领域带来革命性的变化。使用几种常见类型的CryoMAS探头，包括1H/13C/15N和1H/X，可以实现更大的信噪比改善。到目前为止，我们的工作证明，在样品保持在室温下的情况下，通过将线圈和电路元件低温冷却到25K，上述两种类型的探头在MAS实验中的SNR提高了5倍。通过在第二阶段期间的进一步改进的组合，预计SNR将有显著的额外提高。这些改进将包括(1)新的线圈技术使得在25K强磁场中的谐振器品质因数Q增加50%以上，(2)对密封旋转器设计的改进使得低温线圈的磁填充因数提高25%，(3)在400-1000 MHz范围内的高压陶瓷电容器的Q增加两倍，以及(4)在三共振CryoMAS探测器中实现超过75 kHz 1H去耦场强的能力至少达到11.7T，还将开发在样品温度低至30K的情况下旋转的实质性改进，并将增加毫米波照射的条款，以使动态核极化(DNP)能够很容易地增加。在MAS DNP中，将样品温度从90K降低到40K，通常会使DNP实验中的S/N增加一个数量级。S/N的进一步改进将来自于基于增强型伪态高电子迁移率晶体管(E-PHEMT)的低温冷却前置放大器的噪声系数(NF)的进一步降低。关键词：固体核磁共振探针、低温探针、HR-MAS、癌症诊断试验、分子结构、低温前置放大器、动态核极化(DNP)