Magnetic Resonance Microscopy

Part 1 Imaging methods and commercial aspects: NMR microscopy using projection reconstruction; high resolution NMR imaging of solids; three-dimensional NMR imaging of solids; slice selection and phase encoding techniques in solid-state NMR imaging; relaxation time analysis and parameter-selective imaging in materials research; magnetic angle rotating frame imaging in materials; realization of NMR microscopy in a flexible spectrometer; scanning and computer tomography-ESR microscopy; applications of EPR imaging to materials, agriculture and medicine. Part 2 Materials science: NMR imaging of polymers - methods and applications; applications of NMR imaging to polymers; NMR imaging of composition and defects in industrial elastomers; investigation of ageing process and cross-linking in elastomers by parameter-selective NMR microscopy; fluid and solid state MRI of biological and non-biological ceramics; magnetic resonance imaging of carbon implants in the rabbit condyle of the femur; MRI studies of in-situ polymerization reactions at elevated temperatures; investigation of diffusion and photopolymerization processes by NMR imaging; fluid displacement in porous media using NMR microscopy; imaging the dynamics of chemical waves - the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. Part 3 Flow and diffusion: translational motion imaging with pulsed gradient spin echo methods; structure-related diffusion in microporous crystallites; NMR imaging studies of velocity and concentration distributions in flows; approaches to flow statistics, structure correlations and 2D spectroscopy using characteristic functions; petrochemical applications of pulsed-field gradient NMR; rapid arterial flow and decelleration immediately below the carotid bifurcation - effects of occlusions and stenoses. Part 4 Plants and agriculture: NMR microscopy at 500 MHz - cellular resolution in biosystems; applications of chemical-shift microscopy to non-invasive histochemistry of plant materials; some aspects of NMR microscopy applications in plant science and agriculture. Part 5 Biomedicine: high-field NMR imaging of tumour models; MR microscopy of disease models; magentic resonance imaging in drug discovery research; boron-11 MRI and MRS; high-field localized 1H NMR spectroscopy; spectral-spatial skin imaging with modulated gradient and simultaneous field scan (MOSS); proton imaging after dynamic polarization. Part 6 Quot sunt anni?: magnetic resonance reflections.