Callaghan P.T. Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Microscopy

Oxford.: Clarendon Press, 1991. - 492 p. - ISBN: 0-19-853944-4Principles of imagingReciprocal space and Fourier transformation
Fourier transformation and optical microscopy
Photon intensity tomography
The radio-frequency windowIntroductory nuclear magnetic resonance
Elementary quantum mechanics and nuclear magnetization
Resonant excitation and the rotating frame
The semi-classical description
Other nuclear interactions
Relaxation and molecular motion
Introductory spin manipulationThe influence of magnetic field gradients
Spin density and k-space
Selective excitation
Reconstruction in two-dimensions
Alternative reconstruction methods
The use of echoes in imaging experiments
Rapid sampling of k-space
Translational motion of the spinsHigh-resolution k-space imaging
Sensitivity, motion, and resolution
The signal-to-noise ratio in NMR
Frequency domain: discrete transformation in two dimensions
Influence of smoothing filters
T2-limited resolution
Diffusion-limited resolution
Susceptibility-limited resolution
Comparison of Fourier imaging and projection reconstruction
Further resolution enhancementk-Space microscopy in biology and materials science
Proton NMR in biological, synthetic, and mineral materials
Proton density studies in the 'liquid' state
Contrast techniques in imaging
Other nuclei
NMR imaging in the solid stateThe measurement of motion using spin echoes
Motional contrast and microstructure
Introduction to translational dynamics
PGSE: the scattering analogy and q-space
General gradient modulation methods: the motional spectrumStructural imaging using q-space
Restricted diffusion
Simple confining boundaries
The averaged propagator in the long time-scale limit
Porous structures
'Soft-bounded' systems
Spin relaxation in microscopically inhomogeneous mediaSpatially heterogeneous motion and dynamic nmr microscopy
The influence of motion in imaging
Periodic and slow motion
Dynamic NMR microscopy
Velocity-compensated dynamic imaging
Potential artefacts
Applications of dynamic NMR microscopyElements of the nmr microscope
The system
Gradient and r.f. coils
Gradient coil design in solenoidal geometry
High-gradient PGSE