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Investigations of metal-organic frameworks are presented. This substance class is of interest for applications in gas storage (hydrogen, methane), separation, catalysis and sensor technology. The properties of the material depend on the mobility of alkyl or alkyloxy side chains. We have determined that the side chain methylene groups move highly anisotropically with a relatively short correlation time. Furthermore we could improve the analysis procedure for the experiment used here.

Deuterium Metabolic Imaging (DMI) is a novel method to obtain images of dynamic metabolism in the living human brain. While DMI is generally simple and robust, small signals from deuterated skull lipids can distort the metabolic information within the brain. Here we use MRI-based information on brain and skull locations to remove lipid signals from DMI data. With an average 90 % lipid removal, DMI is used to generate distinct and artifact-free metabolic maps on patients with brain tumors.