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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 17.
Published in final edited form as: Concepts Magn Reson Part B Magn Reson Eng. 2010 Feb 17;37B(1):13–19. doi: 10.1002/cmr.b.20152

Table 1.

Sensitivity and resolution of bubble cell probes constructed with zero-susceptibility wire and fine copper wire immersed in fluorinert.

Sample coil description Etched Cell OD Sample profile 1H sensitivity (SNR) 1H resolution (1% CHCl3/CO(CD3)2) (50%/.55%/.11%) Mass Sensitivity (Sm) EB1
20-μL zero-susceptibility rectangular wire solenoidal coil. 3.5 mm stretched ellipsoidal 86:1 (100 mM sucrose); 68:3 (EB1) 0.8/30/45 Hz 417
20-μL copper coil (fluorinert ) 3.5 mm stretched ellipsoidal 60:1 (EB1) 3/70/135 Hz2 368
1-μL zero- susceptibility round wire solenoidal coil 1.8 mm ellipsoidal 3:1 (EB1) 1.3/78/90 Hz 370
1-μL copper coil (fluorinert) 1.8 mm ellipsoidal 2.8:1 (EB1) 0.8/60/80 Hz 340
1

EB: 0.1% ethyl-benzene quartet;

2

resolution was compromised by the need to increase the coil’s inter-turn spacing for tuning purposes.