Lloyd Laporca Lumata1, Ashish Jindal1,
Matthew Merritt1, Craig Malloy1, Allan Dean Sherry1,2,
Zoltan Kovacs1
1Advanced Imaging Research
Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United
States; 2Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas,
Richardson, TX, United States
We present optimization studies of hyperpolarized 89Y NMR signal which shows a relatively long polarization lifetime T1~500 s. Liquid-state 89Y NMR signal enhancement as high as 65,000