Ground-Truth Validation of T2 Estimates From Steady-State Surface NMR

Matthew P. Griffiths; Denys Grombacher; Seyyed Reza Mashhadi; Jakob Juul Larsen

doi:10.1029/2024GL112094

Ground-Truth Validation of T₂ Estimates From Steady-State Surface NMR

Matthew P. Griffiths^*, Denys Grombacher, Seyyed Reza Mashhadi, Jakob Juul Larsen

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Department of Geoscience
WATEC, Centre for Water Technology - WATEC Aarhus University Centre for Water Technology, C.F. Møllers Allé 4
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Signal Processing and Machine learning
WATEC, Centre for Water Technology - WATEC Aarhus University Centre for Water Technology, Finlandsgade

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Steady-state sequences are a new protocol for surface nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), that can yield high quality data in a short time. In addition to faster acquisition, steady-state surface NMR purports to measure the transverse relaxation time (Formula presented.), which is correlated with hydrogeological parameters like pore-size. This is in contrast to the effective transverse relaxation time (Formula presented.) associated with standard single pulse measurements, which may or may not be correlated with pore-size. While previous studies suggest that steady-state measurements have enhanced sensitivity to (Formula presented.), a ground-truth validation has not yet been done. We compare steady-state surface NMR results against borehole NMR logs at four locations. For relaxation regimes of (Formula presented.) > 10 ms, (Formula presented.) profiles from steady-state data are in excellent agreement with borehole measurements, provided the assumption of homogeneous horizontal layers is valid. Even in more complex geological environments, steady-state surface NMR delivers representative estimates of (Formula presented.).

Original language	English
Article number	e2024GL112094
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	51
Issue	24
ISSN	0094-8276
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112094
Publication status	Published - 28 Dec 2024

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Ground-Truth Validation of T₂ Estimates From Steady-State Surface NMR. / Griffiths, Matthew P.; Grombacher, Denys; Mashhadi, Seyyed Reza et al.
In: Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 51, No. 24, e2024GL112094, 28.12.2024.

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