TY  - CHAP
AU  - Windt, Carel W.
AU  - Woertche, Antonia
AU  - Meixner, Marco
TI  - Mobile Magnetic Resonance of Plants: Towards Practical Day-to-day Use
VL  - 37
CY  - London
PB  - Royal Society of Chemistry
M1  - FZJ-2026-00423
SN  - 978-1-83767-163-2
T2  - New developments in NMR
SP  - 345-368
PY  - 2025
AB  - Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are valuable tools for plant science, yet only few plant labs possess their own MR hardware. Affordable, mobile MR devices have the potential to change that, especially if labs would be able to build their own instruments. Recently, significant progress has been made in the development of small-scale, cost-effective MR hardware. New magnet concepts and dedicated small-scale MR components have become available, including open-source FPGA-based platforms that can be used as a console. Building MR instruments in-house thus never has been more feasible. The primary challenge in constructing MR devices for plant research is no longer in the hardware concepts, but in the integration of existing ones and in dealing with the highly variable environmental conditions of the greenhouse and field. In this chapter, we outline the approach that we took to develop practical NMR and MRI devices for routine use. We discuss the guiding principles and engineering strategies behind our choice of magnets, probe heads, amplifiers, and spectrometers, and demonstrate two typical applications.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)7
DO  - DOI:10.1039/9781837673452-00345
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1050672
ER  -