Federico Casanova (EDT), Juan Perlo (EDT), Bernhard Blumich (EDT) Single-Sided NMR

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The use of conventional nuclear magnetic resonance is limited bythe fact that the object needs to be carried to the NMR equipmentand needs to fit inside large superconducting magnets. Bothlimitations are removed by single-sided NMR probes based on openmagnets specially adapted to the object under study. These can beinexpensive and portable sensors that give access to a largenumber of applications inaccessible with using conventional magnetgeometries. Substantial improvements in the magnet design,detection electronics, and the implementation of suitabletechniques to work in the inhomogeneous magnetic fields of openmagnets have allowed scientists and engineers to measurerelaxation-time distributions, diffusion coefficients, 3D images,velocity distributions, and even highly resolved NMR spectra inthe stray field of the magnet. This book is the firstcomprehensive account describing the key issues to be consideredat the time of designing and building open magnets, andsummarizing the arsenal of pulse sequences available today formaterial analysis.