SIMPSON: A General Simulation Program for Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 296-330

  Bak, Mads ^a   Rasmussen, Jimmy T ^a,b   Nielsen, Niels Chr ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Medtronic Functional Diagnostics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0034571935     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmre.2000.2179     Document Type: Article

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