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In vivo EPR Imaging

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Biomedical EPR, Part A: Free Radicals, Metals, Medicine, and Physiology

Part of the book series: Biological Magnetic Resonance ((BIMR,volume 23))

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Aspects of in vivo EPR imaging are discussed, including low frequency spectrometer design, spin probe development, data acquisition and image reconstruction for spatial and spectral-spatial imaging, and the types of biological measurements that can be made using these techniques.

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Williams, B.B., Halpern, H.J. (2005). In vivo EPR Imaging. In: Eaton, S.R., Eaton, G.R., Berliner, L.J. (eds) Biomedical EPR, Part A: Free Radicals, Metals, Medicine, and Physiology. Biological Magnetic Resonance, vol 23. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26741-7_11

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