Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

A method for performing nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the method comprising the steps of:

• positioning a sample in a homogeneous stationary magnetic field directed along an axis;
• preparing nuclei in at least a predetermined volume of said sample for resonant emission of an NMR signal and creating said NMR signal, in which said preparing and creating comprises irradiating said sample with at least one radio-frequency excitation pulse in accordance with an MRI sequence preparation module and/or an MRI sequence evolution module;
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• sensing said NMR signal in the absence of frequency encoding magnetic field gradients such that analysis of said NMR signal yields a chemical shift spectrum from said nuclei;
• wherein, during said sensing, a plurality of intermittently blipped phase gradient pulses are applied to incrementally shift a position in k-space such that different time segments of said NMR signal, demarcated by said blipped phase gradient pulses, correspond to different predetermined locations in k-space.