NMR

When I planned this book seven years ago I had my graduate students at the University of Ulm in mind, diploma as well as doctoral students, who often asked me what literature they should work with. I used to suggest a list of ten to twenty (for my taste: excellent) treatises on NMR. Apparently this did not make them entirely happy. The difficulty which newcomers to the field face is to practise and to apply theoretical formalisms from different sources while still learning the principles of NMR and being actively engaged in NMR research. Although the text presented here is largely based on my lecture notes, the result is a "working book" rather than an introduction. It is intended to provide direct access to the basic information one needs for NMR diffusometry, relaxometry, and tomography applications. A "working book" is certainly not suitable to be read starting on page one and then carrying on until the last page. Boldly extrapolating my own reading habits to those of the typical scientist I am sure that this is not the way in which monographs of this kind are read nowadays. So my aim was to produce a treatise that offers easy and quick access for the reader to relevant matters of interest. I tried hard to ease the comprehension of NMR principles by extensive cross-referencing among the sections and chapters. Tomography, diffusometry and relaxometry are fields based on common phys ical principles.

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Tomography, diffusometry and relaxometry are fields based on common physical principles. The combined use of such techniques provides synergistic insight into physicochemical material properties of an object. The difficulty which newcomers to the field face is to practice and to apply theoretical formalisms from different sources while still learning the principles of NMR and while being already engaged in NMR research. So the author's ambition is a treatise that offers easy and quick access for the reader to any implied matter of interest. He has exerted himself to facilitate the comprehension of NMR principles by extensive cross-referencing among the sections and chapters.

Inhalt
I: Spin Coherences and Echoes.- 1 Introductory Remarks.- 2 Isolated Spins in Inhomogeneous Fields.- 3 Rotary Echoes.- 4 Solid Echoes of Dipolar-Coupled Spins.- 5 Solid Echoes of I =1 Quadrupole Nuclei.- 6 Dipolar and Quadrupolar Magic Echoes.- 7 Coherence Transfer of J-Coupled Spins.- II: Molecular Motion.- 8 Survey.- 9 Categorization of Relaxation Phenomena.- 10 Spin-Relaxation Functions.- 11 Perturbation Theory of Spin Relaxation.- 12 Spin-Lattice Relaxation.- 13 Transverse Relaxation.- 14 Examples of Autocorrelation Functions.- 15 Field-Cycling NMR Relaxometry.- 16 Field-Cycling Relaxometry in Biosystems.- 17 The Dipolar-Correlation Effect.- 18 Survey of NMR Diffusometry.- 19 Main-Field Gradient NMR Diffusometry.- 20 Reciprocal- vs Real-Space Representations.- 21 RF-Field-Gradient NMR Diffusometry.- 22 Examples for Anomalous Self-Diffusion.- 23 Exchange.- III: Localization and Imaging.- 24 Survey.- 25 Fundamentals of NMR Imaging.- 26 Parameter-Weighted Contrasts.- 27 Relaxation-Dispersion Maps.- 28 Frequency-Offset Maps.- 29 Gradient-Pulse Moments and Motions.- 30 Velocimetry and Velocity Maps.- 31 Diffusivity Maps.- 32 Resolution.- 33 Multi-Stripe/Plane Tagging.- 34 Rotating-Frame Imaging.- 35 Imaging of Solid Samples.- 36 Slice-Selective Homonuclear Spin-Locking.- 37 Homonuclear Localized NMR.- 38 Cross-Polarization Principles.- 39 Single-Transition Operator Theory of Cross-Polarization.- 40 Proton-Detected Localized 13C NMR.- 41 Heteronuclear Imaging.- IV: Analytical NMR Toolbox.- 42 Miscellaneous Formulae and Rules.- 43 Rules for Traces.- 44 Commutator Algebra.- 45 Exponential and Trigonometric Operators.- 46 Spin Hamiltonians.- 47 The Density Operator.- 48 Unitary Transformations in NMR.- 49 Irreducible Spherical Tensor Operators.- 50 Derivation of Basic NMR Spectra.- 51 Product Operators for Spins.- 52 Spin Operators for I = 1 Quadrupole Nuclei.- References.