ERICHEN Vision & Mission
Stratigical training for magnetic resonance professionals has been playing an increasing role in constantly and innovatively developing and appliying well-established EPR, NMR and MRI techiniques to better understand our Nature.
By collabrating with the brightest and experienced researchers worldwide and through integrating teaching and training resources in the past and the present, ERICHEN provides a multidisciplinary and cutting-edge platform to enable our clients to realize their training and research goals at the same time.
About ERICHEN Researche-Based EPR, NMR and MRI Training & Consulting
Since electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) were observed in the 1940s, many related technologies and applications have been developed. In particualr, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been widely used in many fields, such as material science, medicine, drug design and cognition science.
In fact , all of the related researches and applications in EPR, NMR, and MRI are relied on the same basic principles in physics, namely, spin magnetic resonance (SMR), often called MR for short. Here, the spin can either be referred to electronic or nuclear spins, or both,. which in many cases are locally coupled and should be treated together. So you can see, SMR is a more general t term to describe theoretical fundations of EPR, NMR and MRI.
The objective of ERICHEN SMR service is to provide just-in-time, tailor-made courses of magnetic resonance for schools and companies who need to train professionals in one or more areas in EPR, NMR, and MRI investigations and applications.
Highlights from Bloembergen's Memori (1983)
Gorter came as a summer lecturer. He wasn't in our group, he was a lecturer in the department. He was an old colleague and friend of Van Vleck, and Van Vleck of course corresponded¡ªand Gorter was very anxious to get out of Holland too, for a while, and take up contacts again. Friends wrote him that I was here. Gorter had of course first suggested magnetic resonance spins. In fact, he had suggested it to Rabi, and there is a footnote in Rabi's famous '38 paper to that effect.
I worked a year across the street at the old Harvard cyclotron, which is still being used for medical irradiation purposes. But it wasn't as exciting intellectually as all the new concepts that came from microwave and radio spectroscopy, and so I felt I could have a bigger impact there. So I said, "No more. No more nuclear energy for me."
"What kind of physicist are you?" I said, "Well, I'm a spectroscopist. I do magnetic resonance, radio frequencies." "Oh, but didn't you do something in nuclear physics?" "Oh no," I said. "Oh, but your thesis¡ªwhat's the title of your thesis, 'Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation,' isn't that nuclear physics?" This is the way it went, you see. They were very sensitive about it. Then he had to ask me what I had voted during the elections in Holland. Official instructions. I said, "I haven't voted, because before the war I was too young, during the war there was the German occupation, after the war I was in the United States. So I haven't voted." He said, "What would you have voted if you had voted?" .full story.
