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Population inversion of a selected region of a spectrum is a concept which has wide application in both NMR spectroscopy and imaging. While inversion of population at any one frequency is a trivial matter, ensuring an accurate inversion over a specified bandwidth, with negligible perturbation of the magnetization outside that bandwidth, is a major problem. However, by using as a driving function a complex radiofrequency (r.f.) pulse with an envelope of the form (sech βt)1+5i where 1/β is the temporal width and t is time, we have found that above a critical r.f. power threshold, magnetization is accurately inverted over a very sharply defined bandwidth, while outside that region, magnetization is returned to its initial position, and population is unaffected. Within the broad limits imposed by our equipment, we have also discovered that the phenomenon is independent of the incident r.f. power.
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Silver, M., Joseph, R., Chen, CN. et al. Selective population inversion in NMR. Nature 310, 681–683 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/310681a0
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