| Preface | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| What Is an NMR Probe | p. 1 |
| The basic pulsed NMR experiment | p. 5 |
| The head probe on a theoretical point of view | p. 9 |
| The principle of reciprocity and the calculation of the induced emf | p. 9 |
| Losses | p. 12 |
| The ultimate sensitivity | p. 14 |
| What Probes for a Specific NMR Experiment | p. 17 |
| High resolution NMR in solution | p. 18 |
| Solid state NMR | p. 19 |
| Biomedical and Biophysical applications | p. 20 |
| Relating the NMR Coil(s) to the Spectrometer | p. 23 |
| The NMR Spectrometer Major Parts | p. 25 |
| General block scheme of an NMR spectrometer/imager | p. 25 |
| Radio-frequency components | p. 25 |
| Sources loads and transmission lines | p. 25 |
| Transmitters | p. 29 |
| Receivers | p. 32 |
| Switching | p. 33 |
| The NMR Probe Components | p. 35 |
| Properties of RLC circuits | p. 35 |
| Inductor | p. 35 |
| Capacitor | p. 36 |
| RLC circuits | p. 37 |
| Matching the Probe Resonator to 50 [Omega] | p. 47 |
| Series Capacitive Matching | p. 48 |
| Parallel Shunt Capacitive Coupling | p. 53 |
| Inductive Matching | p. 56 |
| Inductive matching with a single coupling loop | p. 60 |
| Inductive matching with tuned coupling loop | p. 64 |
| Inductive matching with fixed mutual and variable capacitor | p. 65 |
| Repartition of current in the loops for inductive coupling | p. 72 |
| Parallel Shunt Inductive Coupling | p. 73 |
| Matching Using Transmission Lines | p. 76 |
| Generalization of the NMR Probe Resonator Impedance Matching | p. 80 |
| Broadband Matching | p. 88 |
| Active Matching Network | p. 91 |
| Balun Matching Network | p. 91 |
| Balancing the Probe Head | p. 93 |
| Evidencing the Electric Losses Effect | p. 94 |
| Experimental setup | p. 95 |
| Frequency shifts | p. 98 |
| Q factors | p. 100 |
| Evidencing the Radiation Losses: the Antenna Effect | p. 101 |
| The Common Mode Effects | p. 104 |
| Optimizing the Sensitivity | p. 104 |
| Symmetrical Capacitive Coupling Networks | p. 105 |
| Splitting the matching capacitor | p. 105 |
| A versatile capacitive balancing matching network | p. 108 |
| A simple software to compute the matching components value | p. 119 |
| LC-Balun Matching | p. 120 |
| More Baluns | p. 123 |
| Inductive Coupling Network | p. 128 |
| Quadrature Driving | p. 131 |
| Low Frequency Transformers Circuit | p. 134 |
| Quadrature Hybrid (Branch-Line Hybrid) | p. 138 |
| [lambda]/A transmission lines hybrid | p. 139 |
| [lambda]/8 transmission lines hybrid | p. 147 |
| Lumped elements quadrature hybrids | p. 154 |
| Quarter wave hybrid equivalent | p. 154 |
| [lambda]/8 hybrid equivalent | p. 158 |
| Frequency response of the quad hybrids | p. 161 |
| Ring Hybrid | p. 165 |
| The 180[degree] rat-race hybrid | p. 166 |
| Using the rat-race hybrid 180[degree] in quadrature NMR | p. 174 |
| Lumped elements equivalent of the 180[degree] hybrid | p. 176 |
| Frequency response of the 180[degree] ring hybrid | p. 178 |
| Other 90[degree] Hybrids | p. 181 |
| Multiple Frequencies Tuning | p. 187 |
| Shunting Methods | p. 190 |
| Dual frequency switching circuits | p. 190 |
| Practical double tuned circuits | p. 195 |
| Multiple tuning of a single coil | p. 201 |
| Symmetrizing the shunting configurations | p. 208 |
| Multiple Poles Circuits | p. 213 |
| Coupling Tank Circuits | p. 224 |
| Coupled identical resonators | p. 227 |
| Coupled resonators having the same resonance frequencies but different L/C ratio | p. 230 |
| General case (different coupled resonators) | p. 231 |
| Fluxed coupled resonators | p. 233 |
| Special case of a short circuited coil | p. 237 |
| [Pi] - network configuration | p. 238 |
| Summary of coupled resonators properties | p. 241 |
| Efficiency for Multiple Tuned NMR Probe | p. 245 |
| Efficiency for shunting methods | p. 245 |
| Efficiency for multiple poles circuits | p. 249 |
| Efficiency for coupled resonant circuits | p. 254 |
| Is the Q Factor Representative for the Sensitivity? | p. 255 |
| Connecting the Multiple Frequency Resonator to the Spectrometer | p. 258 |
| Magnetic Field Amplitude Estimation | p. 261 |
| The Biot-Savart Approximation | p. 261 |
| Magnetic field produced by straight wires | p. 263 |
| Magnetic field produced by a loop | p. 266 |
| Effective Field for NMR Experiments | p. 269 |
| Estimation of the Current Distribution | p. 274 |
| Limits and usefulness of the thin wire approximation | p. 274 |
| Current distribution in the isolated flat strip | p. 276 |
| Proximity effects | p. 285 |
| Two coplanar strips | p. 285 |
| Three or more strips | p. 287 |
| Wire in proximity of a conductive plane | p. 288 |
| Current density in round wires | p. 292 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 294 |
| Survey of Modern Electromagnetic Simulation Methods | p. 295 |
| Homogeneous Resonators | p. 301 |
| Axial Resonators | p. 303 |
| Magnetic field amplitude | p. 303 |
| Approximations of the spherical uniform current density | p. 307 |
| Helmholtz coil | p. 307 |
| Four coils configuration | p. 309 |
| Guidelines for a practical design of Helmholtz probes and four coils probes | p. 312 |
| Solenoid types | p. 314 |
| The solenoid coil | p. 314 |
| The loop gap | p. 319 |
| Practical designs | p. 324 |
| Transverse Resonators | p. 332 |
| Magnetic field amplitude | p. 332 |
| The saddle shaped coil | p. 335 |
| The optimum geometry and RF magnetic field | p. 335 |
| A practical design | p. 339 |
| UHF saddle coil-like resonators | p. 342 |
| The Alderman-Grant coil, a version of the slotted cylinder | p. 344 |
| Coupling the Alderman-Grant resonator to the spectrometer, a practical design | p. 348 |
| The cosine, or Bolinger, coil | p. 354 |
| Double tuning the UHF saddle coil-like resonators, a practical design | p. 364 |
| Shielding the UHF saddle coil-like resonators | p. 364 |
| The birdcage resonator | p. 371 |
| RF field map of the birdcage design | p. 372 |
| Low-Pass, High-Pass, Band-Pass and Hybrid birdcage circuits | p. 377 |
| Tuning the birdcage resonator | p. 387 |
| Asymmetry effects | p. 395 |
| Relating the birdcage to the spectrometer | p. 399 |
| A practical design | p. 401 |
| Double tuning the birdcage resonator | p. 414 |
| The Litz coil | p. 423 |
| Transmission lines resonator | p. 425 |
| TEM resonators | p. 425 |
| Split transmission lines resonators | p. 430 |
| Ultra-fast recovery and ultra-broadband delay line probes | p. 434 |
| Heterogeneous Resonators | p. 437 |
| The Basic Surface Coil | p. 437 |
| The simple loop magnetic field distribution | p. 439 |
| "Ideal" case | p. 439 |
| Effect of inductive coupling | p. 441 |
| Practical design guidelines | p. 447 |
| How many turns? | p. 447 |
| Spiral windings | p. 447 |
| Arbitrary winding shapes | p. 451 |
| Wiring shape | p. 453 |
| Opened resonators | p. 458 |
| Surface coils for UHF | p. 459 |
| Segmented loop | p. 459 |
| The crossover-coil | p. 461 |
| Split ring resonator | p. 462 |
| Microstrip coils | p. 464 |
| Super conducting surface coils | p. 466 |
| Relating the coil to the spectrometer | p. 468 |
| Extending the Observed Volume (Multi-Rings Coils) | p. 470 |
| Coaxial rings | p. 470 |
| RF Field profiling | p. 470 |
| X-observed, proton decoupled system | p. 473 |
| Array coils | p. 475 |
| The Surface Coil as Receive-Only Probe | p. 479 |
| Passive decoupling | p. 480 |
| Active decoupling | p. 488 |
| Probe Evaluation and Debugging | p. 493 |
| Adjusting and Evaluating the Probe | p. 493 |
| Instrumentation | p. 494 |
| The pick-up coil | p. 494 |
| The "grid-dip" | p. 494 |
| Impedance bridge | p. 495 |
| Power divider, hybrid and directional coupler | p. 498 |
| Sweep generator, crystal detector and spectrum analyzer | p. 500 |
| Scalar and vector network analyzer | p. 503 |
| Evaluating the probe on the RF workbench | p. 504 |
| Matching the probe input impedance to 50 [Omega] | p. 504 |
| Evaluation of Q factor | p. 507 |
| B1/[radical]P evaluation methods | p. 510 |
| Evaluating the probe connected to the NMR spectrometer | p. 513 |
| Useful Information | p. 516 |
| Self and mutual inductance calculations | p. 516 |
| Formulae | p. 516 |
| Integration methods | p. 521 |
| Evaluation of the complete elliptic integrals | p. 522 |
| The solenoid | p. 523 |
| Introduction to network theory | p. 527 |
| Impedance and admittance matrices | p. 529 |
| The transmission (ABCD) matrix | p. 532 |
| The scattering matrix | p. 533 |
| Transmission lines | p. 534 |
| Electrical properties | p. 534 |
| Transmission line designs | p. 538 |
| Lumped elements replacement of lines | p. 541 |
| Solving Impedance Matching | p. 545 |
| Current Distribution Calculation | p. 549 |
| Magnetic Field Distribution Estimation | p. 555 |
| A Simple Linear Network Analysis Program | p. 563 |
| Bibliography | p. 573 |
| Index | p. 593 |
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