NEW WINDOW FUNCTION FOR VERY SHORT ACQUISITION TIMES

An apodization function, the sinc-TRAF function (S-TR-IF), has been de veloped for application to exponentially decaying data sets where the acquisition times (AT) is less than or equal to one time constant, T-2 , For heavily truncated time-domain signals, S-TRAF is able to remove sine ripple with only minor losses in linewidth (LW) and signal-to-no ise ratio (S/N). Ripple removal achieved with the application of S-TRA F rivals that observed from use of the ''ultimate ripple-free resoluti on enhancement'' function (URFRE) for AT as low as 0.3 T-2. S-TRAF ma intains LW and S/N better than URFRE for all acquisition times examine d.