instructor: Professor David Cory, NW14-4111, 253-3806, dcory@mit.edu

TA's: Mark Price, Scott Packard, and Sumi Bao

8 lectures and 8 laboratory experiments.

The course meets M, T, W, Th starting Monday Jan. 6th for 2 weeks.

The lectures in NW14-2209 from 1:00 - 2:00, the laboratory session follows for an hour or so.

3 credit activity, with letter grades.

There will be a short homework assignment following each laboratory session. The course grade will reflect participation in class and in the laboratory, along with completion of the homework problems.

The course provides an introduction to NMR for those who wish to have a background in both the classical theory and in the instrumentation. The course will be run as a series of 8 lectures, each of which will be followed be laboratory experiments to demonstrate the ideas that were presented during the lecture and to familiarize students with state of the art NMR instrumentation. The experiments will cover topics ranging from spin dynamics, to spectroscopy and will include imaging. Interested students should apply by email to Prof. Cory at dcory@mit.edu

class 1 Monday, Jan. 6

nuclear spin and magnetic resonance.

class 2 Tuesday, Jan. 7

the rotating frame, RF pulses and the Bloch's equations.

class 3 Wednesday. Jan. 8

magnetic field gradients, k-space and diffusion

class 4 Thursday, Jan. 9

spin echoes

class 5 Monday, Jan. 13

NMR imaging in 2D, slice selection

class 6 Tuesday, Jan. 14

More imaging, and flow studies

class 7 Wednesday, Jan. 15

NMR spectroscopy, chemical shifts, spin-spin couplings

class 8 Thursday, Jan. 16

Two dimensional NMR methods, the COSY experiment