NMR in Medicine and Biology

1. Principles of NMR.- 1.1 The Basic Principle of Magnetic Resonance.- 1.2 The NMR Spectrum.- 1.3 Relaxation Mechanisms.- 1.4 Experimental Methods.- 2. NMR Spectroscopy in Biochemistry.- 2.1 NMR as Analytical Method.- 2.2 Time-Dependent Processes in NMR.- 2.3 Two-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy.- 3. NMR Spectroscopy of Biological Macromolecules.- 3.1 NMR Spectroscopy of Proteins.- 3.2 NMR Spectroscopy of Nucleic Acids, Polysaccharides and Lipids.- 4. NMR Tomography.- 4.1 Basic Principles of Imaging.- 4.2 Some Applications of the Basic Experiments in NMR Tomography.- 4.3 Special Applications of NMR Tomography.- 4.4 Biomedical Effects and Dangers of NMR.- 5. Spatial Selective Spectroscopy and In Vivo NMR.- 5.1 Methods for Spatial Selection.- 5.2 Typical Applications and Problems of NMR Spectroscopy in Living Systems.- References.

From the reviews of the German edition: "NMR: readable yet professional... Through this book the reader with a scientific background becomes familiar with all important NMR phenomena, methods and conceptions... The great amount of carefully drawn figures and skillfully selected biologically relevant spectra and figures are an decisive bridge to the ... aim, to convey the NMR basics without mathematics. Besides biologists and physicians the book can be highly recommended to physicists and chemists..." #Nachrichten a. d. Chemie, Technik u. Laboratorien#1 "An extraordinary NMR textbook ... The authors succeeded in presenting the subject vividly. This book is clearly set out and easy to follow at a glance, and its numerous figures are extremely well done." #Labo#2

From the reviews of the German edition: "NMR: readable yet professional... Through this book the reader with a scientific background becomes familiar with all important NMR phenomena, methods and conceptions... The great amount of carefully drawn figures and skillfully selected biologically relevant spectra and figures are an decisive bridge to the ... aim, to convey the NMR basics without mathematics. Besides biologists and physicians the book can be highly recommended to physicists and chemists..." #Nachrichten a. d. Chemie, Technik u. Laboratorien#1 "An extraordinary NMR textbook ... The authors succeeded in presenting the subject vividly. This book is clearly set out and easy to follow at a glance, and its numerous figures are extremely well done." #Labo#2