NMR Probeheads for Biophysical and Biomedical Experiments

NMR Probeheads for Biophysical and Biomedical Experiments 2nd Edition is essential reading for anyone in the field of NMR or MRI, from students to medical or biological scientists performing experiments under certain physical and/or geometrical conditions, unattainable by conventional or available probes. The material guides the reader through the most basic and comprehensive stages in accomplishing a correct probe design, from a very basic oscillating circuit to much more elaborate designs.

This new edition has been revised and updated to include a chapter dedicated to RF components, which are commonly used for probes realization and their frequency-dependent characteristics. Another completely revised chapter concerns the multiple coil systems and discusses arrays coils, different decoupling methods, and some principles for interfacing coils with low-noise preamplifiers. The principles of linear circuit analysis are presented in a dedicated chapter. Last but not least, accompanying files containing updated software for probe design have been made available from the publisher's website.

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Contents:IntroductionRadio Frequency ComponentsIntroduction to Linear Network AnalysisInterfacing the NMR ProbeheadQuadrature DrivingMultiple Frequency TuningMagnetic Field Amplitude EstimationHomogeneous ResonatorsHeterogeneous ResonatorsProbe Evaluation and Debugging
Readership: Bioengineers, biomedical researchers and non-experts in RF technology willing to acquire basic knowledge on RF sensors design; inquisitive user of an NMR spectrometer could be interested in some “knowing-how” about this “black box”.
Key Features:A unique “standalone” document that describes in full the design and properties of NMR probeheadsEntirely dedicated to the RF probes, with detailed calculations and practical illustrationsConsiders in greater details some topics partially addressed in the first edition, including parallel imaging and the distribution of electric fieldsAccompanied by improved versions of the software that was already present in the first edition