Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Relaxation

Advanced text on nuclear magnetic resonance.

Brian Cowan (Author)

9780521303934, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 April 1997

460 pages, 101 b/w illus.
25.4 x 18.2 x 3 cm, 0.95 kg

'This book is clearly intended for, and readable by, physicists … a good read … for its target audience, final year and graduate physicists, for whom it is recommended.' Andrew Todd-Pokropek, The Times Higher Education Supplement

This book provides an introduction to the general principles of nuclear magnetic resonance and relaxation, concentrating on simple models and their application. The concepts of relaxation and the time domain are particularly emphasised. Some relatively advanced topics are treated, but the approach is graduated and all points of potential difficulty are carefully explained. An introductory classical discussion of relaxation is followed by a quantum-mechanical treatment. Only when the the principles of relaxation are firmly established is the density operator approach introduced; and then its power becomes apparent. A selection of case studies is considered in depth, providing applications of the ideas developed in the text. There are a number of appendices, including one on random functions. This treatment of one of the most important experimental techniques in modern science will be of great value to final-year undergraduates, graduate students and researchers using nuclear magnetic resonance, particularly physicists, and especially those involved in the study of condensed matter physics.

1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
3. Detection methods
4. Classical view of relaxation
5. Quantum treatment of relaxation
6. Dipolar lineshapes in solids
7. Relaxation in liquids
8. Some case studies
9. The density operator and applications
NMR imaging
Appendix A. Fourier transformation
Appendix B. Random functions
Appendix C. Interaction picture
Appendix D. Magnetic fields and canonical momentum
Appendix E. Alternative classical treatment of relaxation
Appendix F. Gm(t) for rotationally invariant systems
Appendix G. P(omega, omega zero, t) for rotational diffusion.

Subject Areas: Condensed matter physics [liquid state & solid state physics PHFC]