Shadi F. Othman, Barjor S. Gimi, Amarjit S. Virdi, Richard L. Magin, and Dale R. Sumner, "The Effect of Proteoglycan On MR Parameters of Articular Cartilage." International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Eleventh Scientific Meeting, Toronto, Canada, July 2003.

Miniaturized Magnetic Resonance Systems for Spectroscopy and Imaging, S.C.Grant, R.L.Magin and G.Friedman, NanoSpace2000, Conference Proceedings, 1/23/00

The strength of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy lies in its ability to identify molecular structure nondestructively. Furthermore, the principles of NMR can be applied to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a means of noninvasively examining three-dimensional volumes. Conventional NMR/MRI techniques, however, require sizable and complex equipment, which has hampered space-oriented applications thus far ...

Analysis of Multi-layer RF Microcoils for NMR Spectroscopy, S.C.Grant, L.Murphy, R.L.Magin and G.Friedman, IEEE Trans. Magn., submitted for review 12/99

Although its strength lies in the ability to determine chemical structure completely, NMR spectroscopy is relatively insensitive compared to other analytical techniques. As a result, significant research has been directed at improving the overall sensitivity of NMR spectroscopy by optimizing RF coil design. To investigate volume- and mass-limited samples, RF microcoils have been examined extensively. These solenoidal wire coils take advantage of reduced coil diameter to improve SNR for constrained samples. In this presentation, further improvements in the SNR of microcoils are studied by incorporating additional sensing layers to the simple solenoid design.

Investigation of NMR Signal-to-Noise for RF Scroll Microcoils. Proceedings of Ist Annual International IEEE-EMBS Special Topics Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine & Biology, October 2000

Estimate of Losses and Signal-to-noise Ratio in Planar Inductive Micro-coil Detectors Used for NMR, S. Eroglu, G. Friedman and R. L. Magin, Journal of Applied Physics and IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 37 (4): 27887-2789 Part 1 JUL 2001.