Medical applications nuclear magnetic resonance

Although nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been used to study a variety of lanthanide based systems like contrast agents for medical imaging applications, only a handful of studies on lanthanide SMMs using NMR have been performed to date. These include the neutral [Ln(Pc)2]°(Ln = Dy or Tb)... 

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) is now widely regarded as having evolved into a discipline in its own right. The field has become immensely diverse, ranging from medical use through solid state NMR to liquid state applications, with countless books and scientific journals devoted to these topics. The theoretical as well as experimental advances continue to be rapid, and have in fact been accelerated by many novel innovations. 

All the powerful methods of magnetic resonance, from solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to medical magnetic resonance imaging, depend on measuring the time evolution of a spin system following the application of one or more radio frequency pulses. In the visible and ultraviolet, ultrafast optical pulse sequences have been used for many years to measure both population dynamics and coherence phenomena. At low... 

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Fundamental quantities, such as wavelengths and transition probabilities, determined using spectroscopy, for atoms and molecules are of direct importance in several disciplines such as astro-physics, plasma and laser physics. Here, as in many fields of applied spectroscopy, the spectroscopic information can be used in various kinds of analysis. For instance, optical atomic absorption or emission spectroscopy is used for both qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis. Other types of spectroscopy, e.g. electron spectroscopy methods or nuclear magnetic resonance, also provide information on the chemical environment in which a studied atom is situated. Tunable lasers have had a major impact on both fundamental and applied spectroscopy. New fields of applied laser spectroscopy include remote sensing of the environment, medical applications, combustion diagnostics, laser-induced chemistry and isotope separation. 

Nuclear magnetic resonance is the resorrance that occurs when a nucleus, e.g. of hydrogen, is placed in a magrretic field and is moved by a radio frequency that causes rotation of the nuclei. This cattses absorption of the radio frequency and the absorbed signal is measured. Magrretic resonance imaging is a more complex application of NMR in which the geometric source of the resonances is detected and deconvoluted by Fourier transform analysis. MRI is widely used in medical applications due to its non-invasive visrralization of non-transparent materials. 

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