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A Deep Learning-based Method for LF-NMR Relaxation Time Spectrum Inversion

  • LIU Kewen ,
  • JIANG Yukang ,
  • CHEN Fang ,
  • CHEN Junfei ,
  • LU Yuan ,
  • CHEN Li ,
  • LIU Chaoyang
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  • 1 School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
    2 State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
    3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Received date: 2026-01-26

  Online published: 2026-08-11

Abstract

Low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (LF-NMR) relaxation time spectrum analysis has been widely applied in petroleum engineering and geological exploration. However, conventional NMR relaxation time spectrum inversion algorithms require time-domain signals with high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), which are often difficult to obtain in practical scenarios such as on-site core analysis. To achieve accurate and stable inversion of low-SNR NMR signals, this paper proposes a deep learning-based inversion network named UDMCA (U-Net Denoising and Multi-scale Cross Attention Inversion Network), which incorporates a multi-scale cross-attention mechanism to extract and fuse relaxation features at multiple scales according to the decay characteristics of NMR signals, thereby improving inversion accuracy for low-SNR multi-component signals. In addition, a U-Net denoising module is introduced to further enhance noise robustness. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves accurate and stable inversion for low-SNR signals and demonstrates good applicability in core NMR signal inversion, providing an effective solution for low-SNR LF-NMR data processing and inversion.

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LIU Kewen , JIANG Yukang , CHEN Fang , CHEN Junfei , LU Yuan , CHEN Li , LIU Chaoyang . A Deep Learning-based Method for LF-NMR Relaxation Time Spectrum Inversion[J]. Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2026 , 43(3) : 307 -320 . DOI: 10.11938/cjmr20263201

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