NMR Imaging of Materials
Bernhard Blumich
Abstract
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging of materials is a field of increasing importance. Applications range from fundamental science such as the characterisation of fluid transport in porous rocks, catalyst pellets, and hemodialysers to various fields of engineering for process optimisation and product and quality control, for example, of polymer materials, biomaterials, elastomers, and ceramics. While the results of NMR imaging are being appreciated in a growing community, the methods of imaging are far more diverse for materials applications than for medical imaging of humans. This book pr ... More
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging of materials is a field of increasing importance. Applications range from fundamental science such as the characterisation of fluid transport in porous rocks, catalyst pellets, and hemodialysers to various fields of engineering for process optimisation and product and quality control, for example, of polymer materials, biomaterials, elastomers, and ceramics. While the results of NMR imaging are being appreciated in a growing community, the methods of imaging are far more diverse for materials applications than for medical imaging of humans. This book provides an introduction to NMR imaging of materials covering solid-state NMR spectroscopy, imaging methods for liquid and solid samples, and unusual NMR in terms of special approaches to spatial resolution like an NMR surface scanner. Special attention is paid to the large variety of ways to generate image contrast — the most prominent feature of NMR.
Keywords:
nuclear magnetic resonance imaging,
materials,
fundamental science,
fluid transport,
porous rocks,
catalyst pellets,
hemodialysers,
process optimisation,
quality control,
elastomers
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2003 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198526766 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198526766.001.0001 |