| abstract |
The present invention refers to a method for magnetic resonance imaging or nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy comprising emitting a radio frequency and gradient pulse sequence towards an object being subjected to a magnetic field, wherein said object comprises a molecule having an atom with a nuclear spin differing from 0, encoding, detecting and acquiring a magnetic resonance signal from said object corresponding to said emitted radio frequency and gradient pulse sequence, wherein the radio frequency and gradient pulse sequence comprises a first weighting block, a mixing block with duration t n m and a second weighting block, and wherein encoding, detecting and acquiring the magnetic resonance signal from said object is limited to initial decay of the signal intensity / with increasing strength of at least one of the first weighting block and the second weighting block, wherein the variation of the initial signal decay rate with t n m is analysed to obtain the apparent exchange rate AXR. |