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Method of obtaining pseudofiltering effect in process of data accumulation and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry utilizing same

Assignee: Jeol Ltd
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Filing: 1984-11-06
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Granted: 1986-09-30
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Expires: 2004-11-06
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Abstract

Abstract In a Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, a signal which is produced repeatedly from a time origin is sampled at regular intervals of time to convert the signal into digital form, the time origin being given repeatedly. Then, the digitized data is accumulated. According to the present invention, delay periods beginning with each time origin and ending with the beginning of each sampling are made different from one another to obtain a pseudofiltering effect simply by using a relatively simple structure of apparatus and performing arithmetic operations on data.

Inventors

  • 👤 Kuniaki Nagayama

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01R; G01R33/00; G01R33/20; G01R33/44; G01R33/46; G01R33/4625

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim 80 words
A method of obtaining a pseudofiltering effect in the process of collecting data comprising the steps for: (a) repeatedly generating a time origin signal; (b) after a delay period sampling a signal at regular intervals following the time origin signal; (c) converting the sampled values to digital form; (d) accumulating the resulting digital data; (e) repeating steps (a) to (d) changing the duration of the delay period; and (f) performing arithmetic operations upon the data to remove unwanted frequency components.
Claim 2
Independent Claim 80 words
A method of obtaining a pseudofiltering effect in the process of collecting data comprising the steps for: (a) repeatedly generating a time origin signal; (b) after a delay period sampling a signal at regular intervals following the time origin signal; (c) converting the sampled values to digital form; (d) accumulating the resulting digital data; (e) repeating steps (a) to (d) changing the duration of the delay period; and (f) performing arithmetic operations upon the data to remove unwanted frequency components.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 35 words
The method set forth in claim 1, wherein the signal is a nuclear magnetic resonance signal and wherein the time origin arises when an exciting RF pulse or pules train is applied to a sample.
Claim 4
Independent Claim 98 words
A method of obtaining a pseudofiltering effect in the process of collecting data comprising the steps for: (a) repeatedly generating a time origin signal; (b) after a delay period sampling a signal at regular intervals following the time origin signal; (c) converting the sampled values to digital form; (d) amplifying the sampled values with gains according to the duration of the delay period; (e) accumulating the resulting digital data; (f) repeating steps (a) to (e) changing the duration of the delay period and the gain; and (g) performing arithmetic operations upon the data to remove unwanted frequency components.
Claim 5
Independent Claim 98 words
A method of obtaining a pseudofiltering effect in the process of collecting data comprising the steps for: (a) repeatedly generating a time origin signal; (b) after a delay period sampling a signal at regular intervals following the time origin signal; (c) converting the sampled values to digital form; (d) amplifying the sampled values with gains according to the duration of the delay period; (e) accumulating the resulting digital data; (f) repeating steps (a) to (e) changing the duration of the delay period and the gain; and (g) performing arithmetic operations upon the data to remove unwanted frequency components.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 36 words
The method as set forth in claim 3, wherein the signal is a nuclear magnetic resonance signal and wherein the time origin arises when an exciting RF pulse or pulse train is applied to a sample.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 219 words
In nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry for obtaining a two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum from a sample including a system of nuclear magnetic resonators, the steps of: (a) applying an RF pulse to the sample to disequilibrate the system of the resonators beforehand; (b) causing the disequilibrated condition to proceed during an expansion period of t1; (c) then detecting and recording the free induction decay signal derived from the resonators during a period of t2; (d) repeating the aforementioned steps (a)-(c) for n different expansion periods t11- t1n to obtain the function S (t1, t2) of the signal that is the sum of the free induction decay signals FID (t11, t2)- FID (t1n, t2) which were obtained for the n different expansion periods, wherein m expansion sub-periods t111- t11m, t121- t12m, . . . , t1n1- t1nm which successively differ by a minute time Δτ are set in each of the n expansion periods t11- t1n in this step (d), carrying out the steps (a)-(c) during these n× m sub-periods, and the m free induction decay signals which are produced during each of the periods are accumulated to reconstruct the aforementioned signals FID (t11, t2)- FID (t1n, t2); and (e) taking the double Fourier transform of the function S (t1, t2) into frequency domain with respect to t1 and t2.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 219 words
In nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry for obtaining a two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum from a sample including a system of nuclear magnetic resonators, the steps of: (a) applying an RF pulse to the sample to disequilibrate the system of the resonators beforehand; (b) causing the disequilibrated condition to proceed during an expansion period of t1; (c) then detecting and recording the free induction decay signal derived from the resonators during a period of t2; (d) repeating the aforementioned steps (a)-(c) for n different expansion periods t11- t1n to obtain the function S (t1, t2) of the signal that is the sum of the free induction decay signals FID (t11, t2)- FID (t1n, t2) which were obtained for the n different expansion periods, wherein m expansion sub-periods t111- t11m, t121- t12m, . . . , t1n1- t1nm which successively differ by a minute time Δτ are set in each of the n expansion periods t11- t1n in this step (d), carrying out the steps (a)-(c) during these n× m sub-periods, and the m free induction decay signals which are produced during each of the periods are accumulated to reconstruct the aforementioned signals FID (t11, t2)- FID (t1n, t2); and (e) taking the double Fourier transform of the function S (t1, t2) into frequency domain with respect to t1 and t2.

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