摘要:
In a magnetic nuclear resonance spectrum analyzer including a pair of pole pieces for producing a magnetic field and coils disposed around the pole pieces and supplied with current from a device which effects a coarse stabilization of the magnetic field between the pole pieces, a pair of broadband coils having no iron in their cores disposed in the air gap between the pole pieces iron in their cores disposed in the air gap between the pole pieces and connected to receive a high frequency component of the output of a nuclear resonance stabilizer for effecting a fine stabilization of the magnetic field.
摘要:
Interference signals such as those obtained in nuclear spin spectrometry are subjected to a Fourier analysis in which the frequencies and amplitudes of the interference signals are determined mathematically. The excitation of the sample produces interference signals, all the oscillations of a definite frequency band are filtered out, and the Fourier analysis is performed on this frequency band. The selected portion of the interference oscillations is varied by varying the frequency band and the center frequency thereof in reference to the frequency content of the whole interference signal. One frequency may be produced in a fundamental oscillator and various frequencies, for example for use in mixing circuits, are obtained by frequency multiplication and division.
摘要:
For recording spin resonance spectra the spins of a specimen located in a magnetic field are excited with a pulse-modulated radio-frequency signal (excitation signal). The signal furnished by the excited spins (received signal) in the pulse intervals of the excitation signal is pulse-modulated in such a manner that it is suppressed at least for the duration of the pulses of said excitation signal and that its phase changes by 180* from pulse to pulse. In this way the energy of the receiving signal is distributed to fewer frequency components and a substantial improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio is achieved. A device for performing the method comprises a radio-frequency generator for generating the carrier frequency, a pulse generator for generating a first pulse train with a predetermined pulse repetition frequency as modulation frequency, a first modulator furnishing a pulse- modulated radio-frequency signal coupled to said radio-frequency generator and said pulse generator, a specimen holder coupled to said modulator and located in a magnetic field, and a superheterodyne receiver coupled to said specimen holder, which superheterodyne receiver contains a modulating device to which a second pulse train, whose pulses fall into the intervals between the pulses of said first pulse train and have an alternating polarity, is applied by said pulse generator to modulate the signal received from said specimen holder.
摘要:
In the excitation of spin resonances by means of an RF-pulse in a sample arranged in a homogeneous magnetic field for purposes of spin resonance spectrometry, a limitation of the energy of excitation to the frequency range of interest and an essentially constant amplitude of the energy of excitation in that range of frequency is achieved by application of an RF-pulse with an amplitude variable in time which, at least approximately, corresponds to a sine x/x function. Such amplitude function can be generated by a modulation unit which is controlled either by a digital computer with a stored amplitude function or by the output signal of an analog computer solving a suitable differential equation.
摘要:
A method and apparatus are described for performing time shared spin resonance analyses. A sideband of a pulse modulated RF signal is used to excite the spins of a sample, and the signals received from the excited spins are heterodyned with the carrier frequency of the pulse modulated RF signal. The heterodyned signal is detected by mixing it with a signal having a frequency equal to the product of the pulse repetition rate and the ordinal number of the sideband used to excite the spins. The frequency of the sideband used to excite the spins of the sample is swept through a range of frequencies simply by varying the pulse repetition rate. During such variations in the pulse repetition rate, the amplitude of the sideband signal is kept constant by varying the pulse duration or the amplitude of the carrier frequency signal. Apparatus for carrying out the method is described.
摘要:
A method and apparatus are described for performing pulsed double resonance analyses such as selective saturation and homonuclear decoupling. The method comprises exciting the spins of a spin system in a sample with a series of RF pulses, exciting selected spins of the spin system with an RF signal having frequency components at approximately the Larmor (or resonance) frequencies of the selected spins, receiving the resultant free precession decay signals (or interferograms) of the resonant frequencies generated by the excitations, averaging a plurality of the free precession decay signals, and Fourier analyzing the mean value of the free precession decay signals to determine the spectral response. The excited spin system may be the set of spins associated with one type of nuclei in a sample. Apparatus for carrying out the method includes an RF generator and RF gate for producing a series of RF pulses to excite all the spins of the spin system, and at least one additional RF generator and RF gate for producing an RF oscillation to selectively excite only certain spins of the spin system.
摘要:
A method and apparatus are described for reducing interference in the receiver of a spin resonance spectrometer. The apparatus generates a first set of RF excitation pulses of one phase angle and a second set of RF pulses having a phase angle that is 180* different. The interferograms formed by one set of these pulses are then subtracted from those formed by the other in a signal averager.
摘要:
Apparatus is described for varying the strength of a stabilized magnetic field by connecting to an integrating amplifier in a field-stabilizing feedback loop a pulse generator that produces current pulses of selectable polarity. The amplifier may be an operational amplifier. For improved signal-to-noise ratios, the output of the pulse generator may be applied to the amplifier through a pair of parallel-connected, oppositely-poled diodes having a threshold voltage high enough to eliminate noise signals.