Patents Assigned to Brukar BioSpin AG
  • Patent number: 8283922
    Abstract: A method for heteronuclear decoupling in fast magic-angle spinning NMR measurements comprises application of a decoupling RF-pulse sequence with a decoupling-field amplitude ?1I on spins of a first nucleus and of an excitation pulse on spins of a second nucleus, the sequence comprising m blocks of pulses, with m?4, each block comprising an N-fold repetition of a pair of pulses with pulse width ?p and phases whereby ?p is equal for all pulses, whereby the phase of the pulse pair of the (i+1)-th block is inverted with respect to the pulse pair of the i-th block, with i=1 . . . m?1 and i is an odd number, whereby the pulses within each pair are phase inverted, whereby a phase shift is carried out after each j-th block, with j is an even number. The efficiency of the inventive method compares favorably with CW, TPPM, SPINAL and XiX decoupling methods at medium and high RF amplitudes, particularly under rotary resonance conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Brukar BioSpin AG, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Piotr Tekely, Markus Weingarth, Geoffrey Bodenhausen