Understanding intra- and intermolecular multiple quantum coherences

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MR Physics for Physicists
Organizer: Michael H. Buonocore, M.D., Ph.D.
Skill Level: Intermediate – Advanced
Saturday, 3 May, 08:30 – 18:15, Room 801 A/B

Spin Physics
09:30 Understanding intra- and intermolecular multiple quantum coherences
Jianhui Zhong, Ph.D.
University of Rochester, USA

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), after all, is a quantum mechanical phenomenon.
Even though in the imaging community, we are mostly familiar and use in most times the
so-called vector model which describes the MR signal as from a precessing bar magnet
inside the magnetic field (not too much different from a spinning toy top in the earth’s
gravitation field), at a more fundamental level quantum mechanics should be used for
NMR. The phenomena of multiple-quantum coherence (MQC) not only provides a nice
demonstration of the true quantum mechanical nature of NMR, applications of various
MQC techniques also reveal many interesting structural and functional information in
MRS and MRI...