As a result of the recent expansion of nuclear magnetic resonance in biomedicine, a number of workshops and schools have been organized to introduce the NMR principles to a wider group of biologists, radiologists, neurologists, etc. The aim of most of these courses was to provide a common vocabulary and enough information about ``pulse sequences'', relaxation times, etc. in order to facilitate the use of the various types of NMR imaging systems. However, no courses were organized for the physicists who were responsible for the origin and evolution of the ideas in this area. This Enrico Fermi school was therefore organized. The topics discussed included the theoretical interpretation and prediction of NMR signals, the study of new imaging techniques up to the building of special r.f. coils and the study of new methods for analysing NMR data in the time domain.

• Front Cover 2
• Physics of NMR Spectroscopy in Biology and Medicine 5
• Copyright Page 6
• Table of Contents 7
• Preface 15
• Chapter 1. The fundamentals of NMR 19
  • 1. General description of CW NMR 19
  • 2. Pulsed NMR and its relation to CW 26
  • 3. The density matrix 32
  • 4. Spin-lattice relaxation 42
  • 5. The concept of spin temperature 50
• Chapter 2. Lectures on pulsed NMR 61
  • 1. Introduction 61
  • 2. Dipolar couplings and molecular structure 62
  • 3. Onset of spectral complexity 63