Nmr Imaging New Strategies: Magic Angle Imaging

Until now, the major part of NMR Imaging studies were finalized to diagnostic goals. Hence the main subject of imaging works were the water mobile molecules of biological tissues. Other fields of recent interest were the ima ging of nuclei different from protons and high spatial resolution (NMR microscopy). Another branch of great intere st is the imaging of the broad band components of biological tissues or in general of the solid-like systems. As the main sources of broad band spe£ tra in biological tissues are proteins, amino acid etc., the knowledge of their large band components distribution cha racterize in a specific way the normal or pathologic state of living tissues. In spin systems with large bandwidth, the imaging induced broadening needs very intense gradients to get a good spatial resolution Ar. Actually the fundamental imaging relation