General Electric Company

Harris D Plant

Ralph Eugene Hurd

Boban K John

A signal function S(t.sub.1, t.sub.2) is obtained from a plurality of coherence transfer pathways in a single acquisition by preparing a molecular system in a coherent non-equilibrium state, and alternately and sequentially detecting signals at individual sampling points, in t.sub.2, from the plurality of coherence transfer pathways by using gradient refocusing of a new pathway after signal detection at a sampling point in another pathway. A frequency domain spectrum S(.omega..sub.1,.omega..sub.2) is constructed by first Fourier transforming the time domain signals S(t.sub.1, t.sub.2) in the t.sub.2 dimension and producing real and imaginary components which modulate as sine and cosine signals in t.sub.1. The real (.omega..sub.2) cosine (t.sub.1) components are combined with the imaginary (.omega..sub.2) sine (t.sub.1) components to form a complex data set S(t.sub.1, .omega..sub.2) that is amplitude modulated in t.sub.1. The complex data set is then Fourier transformed in the t.sub.1 dimension to construct in frequency domain spectrum S(.omega..sub.1, .omega..sub.2) which contains pure absorption lineshapes.

Method and apparatus for obtaining pure-absorption two-dimensional

A signal function S(t.sub.1, t.sub.2) is obtained from a plurality of coherence transfer pathways in a single acquisition by preparing a molecular system in a coherent non-equilibrium state, and alternately and sequentially detecting signals at individual sampling points, in t.sub.2, from the plurality of coherence transfer pathways by using gradient refocusing of a new pathway after siganl detection at a sampling point in another pathway. The gradient encoding and refocusing of coherence pathways can use inhomogeneous rf-pulses (B.sub.1 gradients) or B.sub.0 field gradients. The coherence transfer pathways can be sequentially selected in an arbitrary order.

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Harris D Plant