Noise penalty

Signal co-addition is the traditional method to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of any NMR experiment. However, in the context of photo-CIDNP this collides with the problem of sample decomposition because chemical turnover is a prerequisite for polarization generation the achievable improvement is thus always smaller than the theoretical limit for n acquisitions, i.e. smaller than vw. Since the CIDNP signal is proportional to the number of reacting molecules and each acquisition incurs the same noise penalty, the only room for improvement left with a given chemical system (i.e. fixed amount of polarization per photon) and a given... 

The limitation of the gradient of the potential is particularly important for calculations with ADRs and for data sets that potentially contain noise peaks, since it facilitates the appearance of violations due to incorrect restraints. A standard hannonic potential would put a high penalty on large violations and would introduce larger distortions into the structure. 

It is an offence to cause a noise nuisance while in breach of a notice. Proceedings in the magistrate s court can result in a fine of up to 2000 for each offence. It is also possible that the court may impose a daily penalty for continuing nuisances. 

At the cost of deriving specialized algorithms, multiplicative methods can be generalized to other expressions of the penalty to account for different noise statistics (Lanteri et al., 2001) and can even be used to explicitly account for regularization (Lanteri et al., 2002). 

We have seen that minimizing the likelihood penalty ml(x) enforces agreement with the data. Exact expression of ml(x) should depends on the known statistics of the noise. However, if the statistics of the noise is not known, using a least-squares penalty is more robust (Lane, 1996). In the following, and for sake of simplicity, we will assume Gaussian stationary noise ... 

The a priori penalty prior(x) oc — log Pr x allows us to account for additional constraints not carried out by the data alone (i.e. by the likelihood term). For instance, the prior can enforce agreement with some preferred (e.g. smoothness) and/or exact (e.g. non-negativity) properties of the solution. At least, the prior penalty is responsible of regularizing the inverse problem. This implies that the prior must provide information where the data alone fail to do so (in particular in regions where the noise dominates the signal or where data are missing). Not all prior constraints have such properties and the enforced a priori must be chosen with care. Taking into account additional a priori constraints has also some drawbacks it must be realized that the solution will be biased toward the prior. 

The regularized solution is easy to obtain in the case of Gaussian white noise if we choose a smoothness prior measured in the Fourier space. In this case, the MAP penalty writes ... 

To make sense out of this chaos, a method is needed to pick out the rules that will be useful in controlling the system from among the large number that are worthless. The process of identifying productive classifiers relies on a mechanism that provides rewards to those rules that are helpful with a penalty for those that are not. The better rules then gradually emerge from the background noise. 

While the 2/,3/-HMBC experiment, also known as STAR-HMBC, has undeniably its merits, it also suffers from a severe sensitivity penalty which results from the extended pulse sequence and additional delays, pulses and gradients as compared to the standard HMBC sequence. For instance, the 2/,3/-HMBC spectrum shown in Figure 21 has been recorded using 64 scans, for a total experimental time of 184 min, while for obtaining approximately the same signal-to-noise ratio, the corresponding HMBC spectrum could be recorded with only 8 scans and 23 min. 

The corrected free induction decay Sc t) will transform to a spectrum Sc i ) in which not only the acetone signal but also all the ethanol signals have had the instrumental contributions to their lineshapes removed. Provided that the reference region lui to wr gives a complete and accurate representation of the experimental acetone lineshape, our deconvolution process should allow us to obtain a clean corrected spectrum even when the shimming is far from ideal. There are of course limitations on this process. If the experimental lineshape is very broad, it will clearly not be possible to obtain a corrected spectrum in which the lines are very narrow without some sort of penalty. Here the limiting factor is signal-to-noise ratio since S u>) is much sharper than Se u>), the ratio of their inverse Fourier... 

Detailed analysis of the chemical shifts demands higher resolution than a basic ESCA spectrometer can provide. The needed resolution improvement may be achieved experimentally by monochromatizing the x rays and/or by high-resolution energy analysis of the electrons. Either way, because of the reduced slit widths required, penalties are paid in decreased signal-to-noise ratio and longer observation time. Furthermore, the problem of sample charging (Section IV.D) is typically more severe when monochromatized x rays are used (Brundle and Baker, 1981). 

A different but effective approach for removing cosmics is based on comparing several repetitive spectra of the same sample. Provided readout noise is not significant, there is no SNR penalty for obtaining multiple spectra before averaging. If these multiple spectra are added directly, the result is a simple average or sum, and cosmics will only be diluted, as noted earlier. However, the multiple spectra may be compared before adding, and cosmics may be detected. There are several mathematical methods for this process, a few of which are available in commercial instruments. 

The first term in the r.h.s. of eq. (84) is the penalty in the case we know the variance. The error of the noise causes extra penalty which decreases as the number of independent samples n grows. In the limit of large n the first term dominates and we recover (77). Equation (84) must be supplemented by the condition y /n <1/4 for the asymptotic expansion (84) to converge and the instantaneous acceptance probability to be positive [45]. 

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Equation (14) confirms the earlier observations that to maximize resolution, parasitic capacitance must be kept small. In fact, to first order the resolution is proportional to 2CS + Cp. Apparently, thermal noise considerations impose no penalty on a fully integrated sensor with small sense and parasitic capacitance, since resolution improves by the same factor. Only the combination of small sense capacitance and large parasitic (e.g., due to connection to off-chip electronics) suffers from reduced sensitivity. 

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