A Tunable Reentrant Resonator with Transverse Orientation of Electric Field for in Vivo EPR Spectroscopy

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 373-378

  Chzhan, Michael ^a   Kuppusamy, Periannan ^a   Samouilov, Alexandre ^a   He, Guanglong ^a   Zweier, Jay L ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

EPR imaging; Free radical measurement; In vivo EPR spectroscopy; Reentrant resonator; Transversely oriented electric field

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOUSE; RAT; SPIN TRAPPING;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FREE RADICALS; MICE; MICROWAVES; RATS; SPIN TRAPPING;

EID: 0033110396     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmre.1998.1689     Document Type: Article

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