Coherence Transfer in Spatially Resolved NMR

Abstract

We present an overview of some applications of coherence transfer experiments in spatially resolved NMR, with examples from imaging and volume localized spectroscopy. While the major preoccupation of spatially resolved NMR experiments is normally with the dominant component (e.g. water) of heterogeneous multi-component systems, the interest in minor components (e.g. metabolites) of such systems is a strong motivation to develop and apply special techniques. Unlike water, these components typically involve scalar coupled spin systems. They lend themselves therefore to investigations based on the correlated evolution of coupled spins. Specifically, we briefly describe in this contribution the spatially resolved version of multiple quantum experiments, indirect detection experiments and spin correlation experiments.