Development of NMR Imaging Techniques

This text discusses a soft excitation technique, one of NMR signal excitation methods and applications of this method to 1D or 3D images of selected organic solid materials to one liquid crystal. It also discusses the possibility of dynamic study of liquid crystals with soft excitation by presenting self-diffusion study of two selected liquid crystals. Since this text is the author's Ph.D dissertation, it is aimed at people who understand basic spin dynamics and NMR and NMR imaging and want to know more about alternative ways of signal excitation methods in solid state NMR/MRI and their applications. It contains general under­standing of existing solid state NMR methods and MRI techniques and what can be done in non-medical MRI and demonstrates NMR micro-imaging capability with selected flower stems.