Intermediate & Advanced Laboratory

"Experiment is the sole judge of scientific 'truth'"
- Richard Feynman -

Pulsed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Nuclear Physics
however the public would never accept a medical procedure with "nuclear" in the title. So we called it MRI for, "magnetic resonance imaging."

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In this experiment you will become intimately acquainted with the physics of NMR and the signals therein. You will identify the relaxation times of many substances in order to better grasp the use of these physics for medical purposes.

Left-Right: Receiver, Pulser, Mixer/Oscillator.

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The sample mount with permanent magnet is in the background, next are the electronics for signal generation, and in the foreground is the digital oscilloscope, which will output to a computer.

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