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The NMR-MOUSE is a portable magnetic resonance imaging device employed for non-destructive testing of hydrogen-containing materials. Following an introduction to NMR and the NMR-MOUSE, the use of the device for heritage studies is illustrated with examples concerning mummies, easel paintings and frescoes. Blümich, Concepts and Applications of the NMR-MOUSE, in: D.M. Bastidas, E. Cano, eds., …

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Two paintings made by the same artist in 1616 to depict The Dinner and The Dance celebrations of the Pipenpoyse Wedding were examined at Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg, Maastricht, Netherlands. In addition to a shared provenance these paintings demonstrated similarities in their composition and identical materials and techniques. However, the paintings exhibited dramatic differences in …

Evidence for the Accumulative effect of organic Solvent Treatments on Paintings and What to Do about It: A Case Study of Two „Identical” Seventeenth-Century Paintings Using Single-Sided NMR Read More »

In this chapter we look at a range of techniques which can provide complementary information on the properties of Cultural Heritage objects. The first of these, Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence (NRF), is a novel technique which tunes high energy γ-rays to particular nuclei. The high energy γ-rays can probe the volume of cultural heritage artefacts, providing …

Complementary Methods: γ-Beam Techniques, X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Read More »