Method for improving the resolution of solid-state NMR multiple-pulse imaging systems
US5260656A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 31, 1992 |
| Grant date | Nov 9, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 31, 2012 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01R33/4816
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
In an NMR solid-state imaging experiment, a pulsed gradient is interleaved between subcycles of a line-narrowing RF pulse sequence in such a manner that the RF and gradient fields do not overlap in time, the subcycles of RF modulation which occur between gradient pulses are either cyclic or anti-cyclic and symmetric. The line-narrowing pulse sequence can be broken into subcycles, each of which is dipolar decoupling to at least a zero-order approximation. The gradient pulses are intercalated between a selected set of the subcycles which are symmetric. In this manner the prior art zero-order decoupling of the line narrowing interaction and the gradient interaction is extended to include the zero order and all odd order terms in the Magnus expansion of the average dipolar Hamiltonian. If the selected subcycle is dipolar decoupling to second order, then the gradient will also be decoupled to second order.
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