Protonenspinrelaxation und Wasserbeweglichkeit in Muskelgewebe / Proton Spin Relaxation and Mobility of Water in Muscle Tissue

Abstract

The frequency dependence of the proton spin relaxation in muscle tissue shows that the mobility of the muscle water must be described by a continuous distribution of jumping times instead of the usually assumed two-phase model. Measurements on frog muscles (rana esculenta and rana pipiens, gastrocnemius) in the Larmor frequency range 3 kHz to 75 MHz can be understood quantitatively by a log-gaussian distribution, which supports a close relation to protein solutions.