Abstract: A fluid handling apparatus includes a body, which comprises a fluid handling structure, and a flexible membrane attached to the body and formed to interact with a fluid in the fluid handling structure, wherein the membrane comprises a first actuation component. A second actuation component is provided, wherein the first and the second actuation component are formed such that the same attract or repel each other in a first positional relationship, in order to actuate the flexible membrane. A driving means is provided to move the body relative to the second actuation component, in order to bring the first and the second actuation component into the first and out of the first positional relationship.

Abstract: A method of spatially resolved magnetic resonance spectroscopy according to the principle of chemical shift imaging (=CSI) in which, through application of an excitation pulse, spins in a measuring volume are excited and a metabolite signal thereof is read out, wherein between the excitation pulse and the recording of the signal, spatial encoding of the signal is effected by means of a gradient pulse in at least one spatial direction, wherein said spatial encoding gradient is varied between each recording step, such that one obtains spatial allocation of the recorded signals in the partial volume of the measuring volume, is characterized in that a reference signal is recorded in addition to the signal of the recorded metabolites, which comprises the same spatial encoding as the metabolite signal, wherein the recording of the two signals is effected in a convoluted manner.