Rotations in NMR: Part I. Euler - Rodrigues parameters and quaternions

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 149-171

  Siminovitch, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cayley Klein parameters; Composite rotations; Euler Rodrigues parameters; Euler angles; Kinematic relations; Quaternions; SO(3); Spinors; SU(2)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031286136     PISSN: 10437347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0534(1997)9:3<149::AID-CMR3>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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