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Relaxation Dispersion

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Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) and rotating frame (R1ρ) relaxation dispersion

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In the NMR field, the term “relaxation dispersion” refers to the dependence of the spin relaxation rate on the magnetic field strength. Typically either the static field, B0, provided by the spectrometer or the radio-frequency (RF) field, B1, generated by the probe transmitter coil is varied over a wide range. The dependence of spin relaxation on B0 has been used to characterize relaxation mechanisms and spectral density functions (Koenig and Schillinger 1969; Kimmich 1979; Noack 1986). Its biophysics application includes paramagnetic interaction with proteins and residence times of water molecules in proteins to be obtained (Bertini et al. 1993; Halle and Denisov 1995). This B0-dependent relaxation dispersion experiment is also called “nuclear magnetic relaxation dispersion (NMRD),” “relaxometry,” or “field cycling,” in which the longitudinal relaxation rate, R1, is measured as a...

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  1. Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    John D. Persons, Shahid N. Khan & Rieko Ishima

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Persons, J.D., Khan, S.N., Ishima, R. (2018). Relaxation Dispersion. In: Roberts, G., Watts, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9_342-1

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