Numerical analysis of NMR diffusion measurements in the short gradient pulse limit

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 234, Issue , 2013, Pages 165-175

  Moroney, Benjamin F ^a   Stait Gardner, Timothy ^a   Ghadirian, Bahman ^a   Yadav, Nirbhay N ^a   Price, William S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Diffusion; Finite element method; PGSE; Restricted diffusion

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; DIFFUSION; GEOMETRY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS;

CYLINDRICAL PORES; DIFFRACTION DATA; GEOMETRICAL COMPLEXITY; PARALLEL PLANES; PGSE; PULSED GRADIENT SPIN ECHOS; RESTRICTED DIFFUSION; SPHERICAL PORES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84885658439     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2013.06.019     Document Type: Article

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