Michael L Johns & Einar O Fridjonsson 
Mobile NMR and MRI 
Developments and Applications

There has been a recent surge in hardware developments with respect to mobile NMR and MRI systems, from which novel applications are starting to emerge. These comparatively low cost systems allow either for more routine use of NMR and MRI, generally for material quality control, or they allow for the analysis of samples whose size and shape precludes conventional NMR and MRI application. This book will, for the first time, summarise these recent hardware developments, highlight the challenges facing mobile and generally low-field NMR and MRI and describe various applications. Including chapters on commercial applications in well logging and food content measurements, the broad appeal of this book will fill a gap in the literature for NMR spectroscopists, analytical chemists and all those involved in measurement science in both industry and academia.

Table des matières

Introduction; NMR Well logging; Commercial Applications: Bench-top NMR – Food: Solid fat content determination and emulsion droplet sizing; Hardware Developments: Single Sided Magnets; Hardware Developments: Halbach Magnet Arrays; Hardware Developments: Handheld NMR systems for biomolecular sensing; Detection using Squids and Atomic Magnetometers; Software Developments: Improvements in Data Analysis; Emerging Applications: Surface NMR; Rock Core Analysis: Metallic core holders for MRI imaging under resevoir conditions; Outlook: Quo Vadis, NMR?