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Re:Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home fro... by namibj on Monday June 23, 2025 @08:58AM (#44355357)
You know slightly different NMR machines are used to scan entire humans, right? They only really differ in scan pattern for this aspect. That's IIUC just a software change.
Re:Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home fro... by holowoodman on Monday June 23, 2025 @11:44AM (#44356929)
Afaik not really. The ones that scan humans are tuned for a specific proton resonance frequency, so they basically measure hydrogen density. But you get a 3D-Plot because they do a computed tomography of that density.

The chemistry NMRs are spectrographs, so you dial through a whole frequency spectrum and look at the reflected/transmitted signal. With that you get different peaks for different nuclei plus some deviations for crystal or molecular structure.

But I have to admit, that I'm a little rusty on that topic, so you might be right anyways.

Re:Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home fro... by namibj on Thursday June 26, 2025 @06:33PM (#44392134)
Yeah right I looked again and also: MRI doesn't really work for highly conductive (bulk) samples: you can't get the RF in/out of the conductor due to skin effect.

Also proton frequency only....