Abstract #3538

Producing >60,000-Fold Room-Temperature 89Y NMR Signal Enhancement

Lloyd Laporca Lumata¹, Ashish Jindal¹, Matthew Merritt¹, Craig Malloy¹, Allan Dean Sherry^1,2, 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