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Summary

Since several years, surface nuclear magnetic resonance (SNMR) is a well-established method for the hydrogeological characterization of the subsurface up to depths of 150m. When used with small surface loops of only a few square meters, SNMR suffers from low signal-to-noise ratios. This limits the methods applicability in urban areas or areas with low water content (vadose zone). Recently, the SNMR method has been extended by the application of prepolarization (PP) pulses prior to the classical spin excitation, to amplify the measured response signal. Depending on the applied PP-current, the amplification can reach up to two orders of magnitude very close to the PP-loop. This theoretically achievable amplification crucially depends on the assumption of perfect adiabatic switch-off of the corresponding PP-pulse. To study the effect of non-adiabatic switch-off, which is most likely always the case in practical applications, we implement the full spin dynamics simulation of the PP switch-off into the SNMR forward modelling. We show, that depending on the shape and duration of the PP-switch-off ramp, the resulting sounding curves can have decreased signal amplitudes of up to 45%. Neglecting this effect would yield an underestimation of the corresponding subsurface water content of similar magnitude.

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2019-09-08
2024-03-28
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