This volume is based on a series of lectures delivered at a one-day teach- ing symposium on functional and metabolic aspects of NMR measure- ments held at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School on 1st September 1985 as a part of the European Nuclear Medicine Society Congress. Currently the major emphasis in medical NMR in vivo is on its poten- tial to image and display abnormalities in conventional radiological im- ages, providing increased contrast between normal and abnormal tissue, improved definition of vasculature, and possibly an increased potential for differential diagnosis. Although...