The technique described here differs a great deal from traditional chemical NMR. That NMR is a spectroscopy technique where the signal includes contributions f

The technique described here differs a great deal from traditional chemical NMR. That NMR is a spectroscopy technique where the signal includes contributions from huge numbers of atoms. Molecular struture is inferred from the spectra measured by traditional NMR, not viewed in an image. This article describes an imaging technique where images of individual atoms are obtained by a reconstruction algorithm that depends on the imaged volume being in a magnetic gradient - somewhat like a hospital MRI scanner.